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Annotated Bibliography April 5

Raskind, M; Stanberry, K (2010) Assistive Technology Tools: Reading. //Great Schools.// Retrieved from []

There are quite a few assistive technologies reading tools out there to assist students that are struggling with reading. There are audiobooks, optical character recognition, paper-based computer pen, speech synthesizers/screen readers and variable –speed tape recorders. With audiobooks students are able to listen to the text either on audiocassettes, CDs, and MP3 downloads. Some even are able to let the user search for certain sections as well and bookmarking certain pages and chapters. An optical character recognition is able to can printed material into a computer and than the text is read aloud through a speech synthesis/screen reading system. The system is able to run on computers and also portable devices. The paper-based computer pen is a device that allows the student to take notes and also have the pen record the teacher’s voice. A speech synthesizers/screen reader these are programs that run on computers and allow students to have text read for them from any website or program. It also allows students to type and have it read to them. The last assistive technology for struggling readers is variable-speed tape recorders. This device allows students to record and listen to spoken information. They are also able to decide the pace of which the recording is given. All of these assistive technologies will help struggling readers become more confident and comfortable with their readings.