What+Happens+When+Kids+Go+Digital?

Sue Cusack Lesley College scusack@lesley.edu

Her focus was Student Disabilities now spends more time on ELL students and the use of technology in both of these areas.

Strategies for accomodations for students with print disabilites eBooks, accessible textbooks,

Presenter is sending us her links and presentation by e-mail.

I will post when I receive the information


 * Special Ed and Tech Department need to come together**

NIMAS(National Instructional Materials Accessibility) /IDEA Cast- Universal design RFB&D Recording for the Blind and Dyslexic

Macs have more accessibility features built in do not have to download extra programs Microsoft has more than most people know but they do not advertise it (they don't have to)

Ebooks must all be in same file format publishers did not want this but then found out one file format is best

Text to speech- **natural reader**- if you can highligh it it will talk to you Kindle- not accessible BPL- electronic library overdrive software MAC and PC Lit2Go- Florida Ed Dept Project Gutenberg- 1st with digital books not great for elem more for Middle and HS Goodreads
 * Overdrive**
 * Bookshare.org**
 * Blio**- free book reader PC based, working on Apple App
 * Balabolka**
 * Tumblebooks** Tucker Free Library

MCAS going digital in 3-4 years Kurzweil- online flash drive can use on any computer, networked

Learningthroughlisteninglorg free- register, Listen skills inventory Kurzweil- 180 wpm Reading 36 pages- 30 minutes, listening to 36 pages= 1 hour takes twice as long Teachers need to be aware of this

downloading an e-book- download-read-dump takes up too much space to keep