- Special School District of St. Louis County
- Assistive Technology by Content Area
Word Prediction
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CoWriter Universal
Co:Writer helps give you the words and phrases you’re intending as you type—even if your grammar and spelling are way off. Just type a letter or two and Co:Writer “predicts” words and phrases in real time. CoWriter is currently available to all students that receive services from Special School District.
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Read and Write for Google
Read and Write offers text prediction, picture dictionaries, summary highlighters and a grammar, spelling and confusable words checker. These tools are free for 30 days, but then a subscription must be obtained from your computer access facilitator.
Word Banks
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Clicker Connect
Clicker Connect provides students with clusters of words, phrases, and/or pictures to help them build a coherent piece of text. Students simply click and it adds the word to their document. This is now part of the Clicker Writer app for Chromebooks and iPads, and the new Clicker 8 program available for laptops.
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Clicker Docs
Clicker Docs provides word prediction as well as tabbed vocabulary support. Students simply click and it adds the word to their document. This is now part of the Clicker Writer app for Chromebooks and iPads, and the new Clicker 8 program available for laptops.
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Clicker Sentences
In Clicker Sentences each sentence grid contains all the words required to build a sentence. Students tap each word to create the sentence in their document. This is now part of the Clicker Writer app for Chromebooks and iPads, and the new Clicker 8 program available for laptops.
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PixWriter
PixWriter is a talking picture and word processor that combines symbol support with highlighted text and speech. You create illustrated buttons to form a word bank by simply entering text and the student clicks the buttons to create their writing piece. This is available for Mac and Windows laptops as well as an iPad app.
Alternative Pencils
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Alternative Pencils
Developed at the Centre for Literacy and Disability Studies (CLDS), and written about by Hanser (2006, 2009), an alternative pencil is defined as anything that provides a student with access to all 26 letters of the alphabet for use in writing. Students DO NOT need to know how to independently read or spell words in order to use any of the alternative pencils.
Alternative Pencil Examples
On-Screen Keyboard Adapted Keyboard Speech Output Device 
Alphabet Board Eye Gaze ABC Chart ABC Flip Book 
Graphic Organizers
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Graphic Organizers
- Lucidchart Diagrams (add-on)
- Storyboard That (Chrome app)
- Holt Graphic Organizers (website)
- Houghton Mifflin (website)
