Audiobook Resource List

For students with dyslexia and other reading deficits that cause them to read below grade level, leveled readers may not be enough. While they help students learn to read, if used exclusively, they also limit students’ opportunities to acquire grade-level content. As a result, they often fall behind, become disengaged and lose interest in learning. When decoding is hard for kids, they might put all of their energy into sounding out the words. With audiobooks, kids don’t have to do this. That frees up their energy to focus on the meaning.

One of the greatest benefits of audiobooks is that they can motivate struggling readers. When kids aren’t reading at grade level, they might not yet be reading the same books as their classmates and friends. As a result, kids like your child might feel really frustrated.

Symbol Supported Reading Resources

"Symbols are useful supports across environments to cross language barriers, provide additional context for conveying meaning, or to close gaps concerning experience or culture. Symbols help students develop as communicators and readers empowering them to understand information, voice opinions and make choices. When carefully selected to have meaning and relevance, symbols are assistive" by Anne Johnson-Oliss

Snap&Read by Don Johnston – online reading tool with text to speech support for both accessible and inaccessible text, dynamic text leveling, translation, annotation and study tools. SSD provides unlimited student usage through a district-wide license available in iOS and Chrome platforms. Snap and Read delivers usage data to teachers who then can more easily assess students’ reading needs individually.

Snap and Read Universal Teacher and Student Account Setup

Snap and Read User Guide

Don Johnston Product Resources

Read&Write for Google by Texthelp - chrome extension that works with web pages and common file types in Google Drive and features simplifying and summarizing text, vocabulary lists, highlighting and collecting highlights, speech to text, text to speech, word prediction, and embedded picture and text dictionaries.

R&W Google Account setup - contact your AT facilitator

R&W Google User Guide

R&W Google Teacher Guide

iOS Speak Selection & Speak Screen

The ipad and the iphone can speak selected text or the entire screen. iPhone can also provide feedback and speak text corrections and suggestions as you type.

PDF How to Guide

Video How to Guide