Text-To-Speech is a way to read aloud the text being written on the computer. This can help various students from non-readers, dyslexia, blindness, autism, ADHD and intellectual disability. This was used in my classroom this week to help a student that was a non-reader understand what the passage stated. The teacher also has C-Pens that perform similarly to Text-To-Speech, but for texts written on paper.
The platform the teacher used was Google Documents by sharing an article with the classroom. After doing some research I found that you do have to pay for the extension however there is a free trial for 60 minutes of reading. Being a student myself, I have also found that there is a "read aloud" on PDFs that is free. I have attached a picture to demonstrate where the extension for reading aloud is.
These tools help create equity in the classroom by giving these students an equal chance to learn how to read with some assistance.
Melissa H @NU
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