Jim Rinehart, Assistive Technology Specialist, at Easterseals Crossroads shows us how to access .pdf files using OCR (optical character recognition with JAWS screenreader. Check it out here: Click here to learn more about JAWS.
Posts with the assistive technology tag
AM416 – OgStar Reading App
Podcast: Play in new window | Download Hey there! Welcome to Accessibility Minute, your weekly look at Assistive Technology, those clever tools and devices designed to help people who have difficulties with vision, mobility, hearing or other special needs! Looking for a fun app to help teach your child or student how to read, write, […]
Vico SmartBoard App
If you’re looking for a digital version of a whiteboard to help teach your student(s), check out Vico SmartBoard. Vico SmartBoard is an iPad app for teachers looking to tutor their students. Further, Vico is a platform that provides “learning in a lively, intuitive way” as if the teacher and student are in the same […]
Talkie Articulation App
If you’re in the market for an app to help children learn and practice speech-sound production, check out the Talkie Articulation app. The app aims for “young children to utilize the content, with an adult or speech therapist to guide them so they can learn the correct sounds of phonemes.” The Talkie Articulation app was […]
OgStar Reading App
Looking for a fun app to help teach your child or student how to read, write, and spell? The OgStar Reading app is a comprehensive, multisensory 35-lesson literacy game. The app is based on the Orton-Gillingham Approach: “The Orton-Gillingham Approach is a direct, explicit, multisensory, sequential, diagnostic, and prescriptive way to teach literacy when reading, […]
Monday Tech Tip: AssistiveWare
AssistiveWare was one of the vendors at the 2021 Assistive Technology Industry Association (ATIA) conference. The conference was not able to be held in person due to Covid-19 pandemic, but vendors shared great information about their products virtually. Here is the information that AssistiveWare shared about their assistive technology augmentative communication (AAC) products. Check it […]