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#BeReady: How Assistive Technology Helps Students with Learning Differences Read Independently

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Published August 29, 2019

#BeReady: How Assistive Technology Helps Students with Learning Differences Read Independently

Amy Ratajczak, a speech-language pathologist, explains how assistive technology helps students with reading comprehension, decoding, and fluency so they can access grade-level text independently.

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Back to School with Bookshare: Tips from the Teaching Trenches (Part 2)

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Published August 30, 2017

Back to School with Bookshare: Tips from the Teaching Trenches (Part 2)

Equal access means equal opportunity for students with disabilities Welcome to the second blog in our Back to School with Bookshare series. These blogs help teachers get a strong start to the school year so they can help their students be successful. The first blog featured Special Education Resource Teacher Diane Lurye and the ways she uses Bookshare to encourage reading independence. “Technology is the equalizer for students with disabilities,” says Deirdre Watkins, an Itinerant Teacher of Students with Visual Impairments in the Dekalb County School District in Georgia. She serves sixteen students in pre-K through 12th grade across six…

Back to School with Bookshare: Tips from the Teaching Trenches (Part 1)

Special education teacher Diane Lurye shares four steps to reading independence for students with disabilities.

Get in the Back-to-School Groove with Bookshare

Summer is winding down, and a new school year is around the corner. How can we make sure students with visual, physical, and learning disabilities are set up to have their best academic year yet? Get their books in accessible formats and the best tools around from Bookshare for free! Since last back-to-school, the Bookshare team has been busy adding more and more books to our library. Our collection is bigger than ever with over 350,000 titles in formats like audio, braille, and large print that are accessible to people who cannot read traditional print. These titles include textbooks, Common…

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#BeReady: How Assistive Technology Helps Students with Learning Differences Read Independently

Back to School with Bookshare: Tips from the Teaching Trenches (Part 2)

Back to School with Bookshare: Tips from the Teaching Trenches (Part 1)

Get in the Back-to-School Groove with Bookshare