Resource List
Assistive Technology and Individuals with Dyslexia
Web Sites
ABLEDATA
Adaptive Technology Center, Indiana University
The Alliance for Technology Access (ATA)
Assistive Technology for the Classroom, Landmark College
Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST)
Center for Assistive Technology & Environmental Access (CATEA)
Closing The Gap
Community Technology Centers' Network
eduScapes
The Family Center on Technology and Disability
Johns Hopkins University Center for Technology in Education
LD Online's Technology section
LD Resources
Learning Aids, Washington Assistive Technology Alliance
National Center to Improve Practice in Special Education through Technology, Media and Materials
Schwab Learning
Speaking to Write
University of Toronto, Adaptive Technology Resource Centre
Listservs and Discussion Boards
Closing The Gap Forums
Kurzweil
Speak to Write
Software and Hardware
This list of software and hardware resources is not exhaustive, but surveys the field and offers some leading products in each category. Listing here does not imply endorsement of a particular product. (Source: Pisha, B., Hitchcock, C., & Stahl, S. [2003, Fall]. Assistive technologies resource list. Perspectives, 29[4], 14–18.)
Text-to-Speech Software
Although some text-to-speech software, which reads digitized text aloud, is available as a free download or as shareware, the features vary greatly among products, and not all digital text can be read by all products.
Freeware
Freeware can be downloaded from the Internet without charge.
HearIt!
HELP Read
Microsoft Reader
Text Talkster v1.0
Shareware
Shareware can be downloaded from the Internet and used without cost for a trial period. After the trial ends, users should pay a shareware fee, which is usually relatively inexpensive.
TextAloudMP3
Commercial Software
Following are more expensive choices that offer integrated scanning, improved voices, and maintain original page layout.
CAST eReader
CAST
Kurzweil 3000
Read & Write Gold and Screenreader v4
Texthelp Systems Ltd.
Reading Assistant
Soliloquy Learning
WordQ Writing Aid Software
WYNN
Freedom Scientific
Voice Recognition Software
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
ScanSoft
MacSpeech iListen (Macintosh only)
ViaVoice
(ViaVoice products are available through ScanSoft, http://www.scansoft.com/viavoice)
Graphic Organizer Software
Inspiration and Kidspiration
Inexpensive Portable Word Processors
AlphaSmart 3000
AlphaSmart
973 University Avenue
Los Gatos, CA 95032
408-355-1000
LaserPC6 (with text-to-speech option)
Other Technology Tools
Draft:Builder, Write:OutLoud, Co:Writer 4000, and Co:Writer SmartApplet
Don Johnston
Reading Pen
WizCom Technologies
257 Great Road
Acton, MA 01720, USA
888-777-0552
Sources for Digital Text
General
(Source of general digital text listing: Center for Applied Special Technology. Web resources: Digital media. Retrieved from http://dev.cast.org/castweb/udl/index.cfm?i=206&s=y&searchby=level1&level1_
ID=1#1)
Abacci Books
Accessible Book Collection
Alex: A Catalog of Electronic Texts
Audible
Bookshare.org
CAST eText Spider
EBooks
A digital bookstore
Elibrary
The eText Archive
Internet Public Library
Literature Online from Chadwyck
The Online Books Page
Project Gutenberg
Search eBooks
SearchGov.com
The Texas Text Exchange
Elementary Level
Accessible Book Collection
African Stories
Best Children's Lit (On The Net)
The Children's Literature Web Guide
Cinderella Stories
Fairrisa Cyber Library
KidSpace @ The Internet Public Library
The Princess and the Pea by Hans Christian Andersen
Stories, Folklore, and Fairy Tales Theme Page
Academic Texts, Secondary Level and Above
American Literary Classics
Bartleby.com
Bookshare
Camera Obscura
Carnegie Mellon's Universal Library
CCBC Publications
Electronic Text Center, The University of Virginia
English Language Resources, The University of Virginia
Hypertexts: Electronic Texts for the Study of American Culture
Internet Archive of Texts and Documents, Hanover College History Department
Literature Project Sites
University of Toronto English Library, Authors Database |
