Supports for Struggling Learners April 5th 2014 The guy talking Doug Rosette VP of SalesEast Texthelp Inc drosettetexthelpcom Doug has worked in the assistive technology industry for over 20 years Previously Doug worked for Cambium Learning and he was the founder and principa ID: 185622
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Google Chrome
Supports for Struggling Learners
April 5th,
2014Slide2
The guy talking...
Doug Rosette
VP of Sales-East
Texthelp, Inc.
d.rosette@texthelp.com
Doug has worked in the assistive technology industry for over 20 years. Previously, Doug worked for Cambium Learning, and he was the founder and principal partner at Pathways Technology where he sold software to schools districts and universities around the United States. Doug has a B.S. for Salem State University.Slide3
Goals for today...
Learn about taking a UDL approach to Google Apps
Understand why this is important
View some really cool tools
Answer your questions
Majority of time
spent hereSlide4
What is Universal Design?
Coined by Architect, Ron Mace
Design for everybody.
Tall, Short, Wide, Narrow
Range of strengths and
abilities
Selwyn
Goldsmith, author of Designing for the Disabled (1963), who
pioneered
the concept of free access for disabled
people (created curb cut outs).
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Retrofit
= Modify After FailureSlide6
Technology Can Help…
Remediation vs. Compensation:
Edyburn, 2002Slide7
Why this is importantSlide8
3 Months LaterSlide9
Support Tools
Text-to-speech
Word prediction
Visual & talking dictionaries
Symbol Supports
Translator
Organizational and study tools
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Research
Sources:
Elkind (1998), Montali and Lewandowski (1996), Disseldorp and Chambers (2002).
Text-to-speech with dual highlighting can increase student comprehension by
two grade levels
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An extension that works with documents inside Google Drive.
Each icon represents a powerful tool.
These tools help students to read, write, organize, and research independently.
Read and analyze Google Docs, PDF, ePub and .kes files
What is Read&Write for Google?Slide12
(Back)
ORIGINAL TEXT
EXTRACTED HIGHLIGHTS
Master Text ComplexitySlide13
Comprehension Tools
(Back)Slide14
Read&Write for Google
TMSlide15
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Bookshare:
www.bookshare.org
*Learning Ally:
www.learningally.org
*Access Text Network (Hi Ed): www.accesstext.org
Project Gutenberg:
www.gutenberg.org
Bartleby:
www.bartleby.com
Merlot from CSU:
www.merlot.org
Tarheel
Reader (K-4):
http://tarheelreader.org
Free
epub
:
www.manybooks.net
www.epubbooks.com
(some free)
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For Students with Disabilities only
Digital ResourcesSlide16
DemoSlide17
What did we see?
Tools to help with reading, writing and organization in Google Docs
Tools to help struggling readers with PDF, EPUB, KES, and web pages
New reading supports available soon
Any questions on this?Slide18
Questions?
Doug Rosette
VP of Sales - East
Texthelp, Inc.
d.rosette@texthelp.com
#UDL #AIM #LD