1. The low-down on using computers and portable devices for reading Dr Abi James Assistive Technology Consultant British Dyslexia Association New Technologies Committee www.bdatech.orgTalk to Cheshire Dyslexia Association 11th March 2013

2. Pupils with dyslexia benefit from using ICT : Non- Multi- judgemental sensory and teaching motivational environment feedback Adaptable and Time-saving personalised and editing working tools environment

3. Reading Developing Reading skills Text-to-speech for reading Dyslexia-friendly text & accessibility online Ebooks & eBook readers

4. Reading Skills Seeing and hearing text together improves reading skills Multimedia = multi-sensory = motivation Access materials alongside peers. Oxford Owl - www.oxfordowl.co.uk/FindBook

5. Text-to-speech Enables text to be read out from the computer screen, Synchronised highlighting provide visual and auditory cues Helps readers who struggle due to: Slow reading speed Poor accuracy Poor concentration or memory

6. ClaroRead demonstrationClaroRead SE 49 +VAT Speech in Word, Internet & PDFS with highlighting, save-to-audio & high-quality voicesClaroRead Plus 159 + VAT Speech plus talking spell-checker, dictionary, word prediction, homophone checker & OCR scanningwww.clarosoftware.com

7. Computerised Speech Quality Accents & Clarity. Free vs paid JISC Techdis voices free for students 16+ http://www.jisctechdis.ac.uk/techdis/technologymatters/voices Accents & languages Tricky words Homonyms read / read Proper Nouns Abbreviations, cultural references

8. How to make your computer talk All Windows & Mac computers have text-to- speech built-in. See http://bdatech.org/whats-new/ on how to add speech to Word 2010Other free tools: Wordtalk - www.wordtalk.org.uk Ivona Mini-Reader www.ivona.com/en/mini- reader/

9. Text-to-speech programs Write:Outloud Talking word Clicker; WriteOnline processors WordTalk (free ad-in to word, no voice)Tools accessible from Texthelp Read&Write Standard other applications ClaroRead SE e.g. MS Word, ATBar (online tools) Ivona Reader internet (free no voice or highlighting) Kurzweil 3000Scan-Read Software Texthelp Read&Write Gold ClaroRead Plus / Pro

10. Dyslexia-friendly online reading Changing the look and fell of text: Font size: use zoom in web browsers Ctrl + Font colour & style: Background colour Text justification Readability ; Evernote Clearly (Chrome) - free Claro ScreenRuler Virtual Reading Ruler

11. eBook Readers Some can read aloud! But not all. Depends on book publisher & device

12. eBooks tools for PCGenerally ePubs can be read aloud. ePub3supports accessibility Project Gothenburg out of copyright books Calibre converts files to ePub2 Balabolka (Win) reading window, converts files to MP3 Azardi, Stanza , Readium free Epub reader software Accessible materials Bookshare, Load2Learn

13. iPad and Android apps iPads & most Android tablets have TTS voices built-in iPad/iOS use accessibility settings to access speak selection Apps range from 1.49 to ~20 for TTS writing support, PDF reading, colour highlighting http://bdatech.org/what- technology/small-portable- devices/apps/

14. Take a picture, hear the wordsCapturaTalk for Android www.capturatalk.com

15. E-book device Tablet e.g. Touch, Desktop / laptop ipad and netbookPurchase ebooksSearch & downloadacademic papersRead aloud textbooksRead aloud papers &learning resourceRecord audio notesRecord text notes inlecturesResearch on theinternetCreate a mind mapMake notes fromtextDraft an assignmentProof read anassignment

16. Contact details:Abi JamesEmail: abi@assistivelearning.co.ukSources of information:www.bdatech.orgwww.emptech.info