The Power of Assistive Technology – The Dyslexia Show 16th March

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Assistive Technology Miniguide can be downloaded as a PDF once you’ve joined Nasen at https://nasen.org.uk/atminiguide

Here are some free tools you may be interested in using in your school or educational setting:-

PC – WORD PREDICTION ON A PC

Go to settings

In the search window type ” Typing ” and select Typing suggestions as you type.

You now have a basic word prediction to write the words they want to use.

CHROME EXTENSIONS THAT YOU CAN GET FROM THE CHROME WEB STORE ARE:-

Helperbird – suite of helpful changes to colour and layout

Readlax – strips any webpage of images to concentrate on text.

Natural reader – get any pdf document read or ebook

ReadWrite – text to speech reader

Voice In – speech to text

Lightkey – AI word prediction tool

Ginger – spelling

Grammarly – sentence structiure and grammer checker

GOOGLE

Voice Typing – Google Docs has this feature in the Tools menu

Dictation in Gmail – adds voice input to emails

Chrome Browser – toolbar now has both voice search and picture/image searching

Google Keep – note taking

APPS

Popplet Lite – £free simple mindmapper with PDF, JPEG exports

Popplet Lite on the App Store (apple.com)

Clicker Writer – £free – construct sentences using cells.

Clicker Writer on the App Store (apple.com)

Claro ScanPen £9.99 – easy to use whole page text to speevch reader https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/claro-scanpen/id994933713

Claro Scan Pen Premium OCR scanner £free – worth trying to see how you like the approach

Claro Speak Plus £9.99 – on screen https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/clarospeak-plus/id845128025

MICROSOFT 365

(can be run on a Chrome book)

Dictate – speech to text on Home tab in Word

Immersive Reader – text to speech with lots of visual tools as well

ReadAloud – in Word and in The Edge.

Chromebooks need wifi

IPADS

Spoken Word for text to speech

Microphone on Keyboard

Swiftkey to provide word prediction on the onscreen keyboard – you add a swiftkey keyboard

The Power of AT films – signup from http://bataonlone.org/im[pact

Nasen miniguide –

https://nasen.org.uk/atminiguide

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Testimonies

“Accessibility Smyles continues to serve up timely information about the latest and best technology for individuals with unique needs. Always pleased to receive these helpful resources with related links. I share them with parents, educators and others who serve the many with reading and learning challenges. (Thank you, Myles!)” – Jean

“I’ve known Myles for many years, he’s my go-to expert for all this Accessibility, so much so that he’s our resident expert at Anderton Tiger Radio. Whenever we feature this topic he’s always there with excellent advice and guidance, in fact you can listen to him again here from our January radio show https://www.buzzsprout.com/695014/2586430-myles-pilling-talks-about-technologies-for-send-that-have-caught-his-eye-at-bett-2020 Highly recommended, Myles is most definitely one of the top 5 experts in his field in the UK” – Russell Prue, Anderson Tiger

“After one of your recent training sessions, I visited your Techsavvy session and discovered the virtual tour guides. A a result my husband and I enjoyed a splendid trip to Edinburgh. A city I have avoided for a number of years due to its challenges for a wheelchair user due to its very steep streets and cobbles. I think the sessions you have posted are really good and I hoped you would be happy if I suggested these to clients, I am assisting in my volunteering journey. I am also liaising with a local charity who are trying to encourage their older members and I think they too could benefit from your regular hints and tips so would like to suggest they pass on the Techsavvy links. You really are an inspiration.” –

Heather Sneddon

South West Scotland Coordinator , AbilityNet