Reading
Microsoft Learning Tool to have text read aloud.
Immersive Reader
Microsoft Learning Tool for verbal students to write when handwriting or keyboarding is not feasible.
Dictate
The district's universal classroom communication tool.
MELD board
Tool for students who are visually impaired and need to access grade level books.
audiobooks
A device that can be used by a student with motor planning difficulties impacting his handwriting and use of a standard keyboard who is learning the alphabet.
large, color-coded keyboard
The number one strategy for teaching communication using AAC.
Modeling or Aided Language Input
An 8th grade student is able to read at a 1st grade level. The teacher provides age-appropriate, modified books using this tool.
Tarheel Reader
Tool for students who are able to type but need visual supports for planning and organizing their thoughts.
typable graphic organizer
The strategy used with emergent communicators to replace behaviors with words, moving students to intentional symbolic communication.
Identify and Attribute Meaning
Laptop-based tool used to manipulate letters and build words that students with significant motor challenges can access.
virtual manipulatives
Tool for students using handwriting who need visual cues to maintain spacing and organization.
adapted writing paper
A strategy used to communicate with limited verbal individuals with physical limitations.
eye gaze or partner assisted scanning
Tool student's with dyslexia can use to access grade-level curriculum materials in paper format.
scanning pen
Tool for limited verbal students unable to use a keyboard or handwriting. This tool uses Partner Assisted Scanning and the alphabet.
alternate pencil or alphabet flipchart
Responding to teacher's questions and use of a participation board are not considered...
robust communication