According to the Accommodations and Modifications for Students with Disabilities Project, it is used by a person with a disability to increase, maintain, or improve his or her functional capabilities. It is easy to operate electronic devices that are moderately priced.
Franklin Language Master - Talking Dictionary
- Area it supports: Lower level content skills
- Students it supports: Students who have problems with phonics and grammar and who have a limited vocabulary. It also speaks, so it is useful for students who need help with letter/sound recognition and pronunciation.
- How it works: This device is a speaking electronic dictionary and thesaurus with a phonetic checker. This device can speak each letter, word and definition. All you need to do is type the word in, and you can choose the feature you want to access.
- Compensatory
- Features:
- $129.99
- 130 000 words, 300 000 definitions, 10 000 antonyms and 500 000 synonyms
- Phonetic spell correction
- Grammar guides
- It is small for ease of portability and very easy to use
Neo 2 Portable Keyboard
- Area it supports: Upper level mechanical and low level content skills
- Students it supports: Students who have fine motor skill challenges, problems with grammar and phonics, limited vocabulary and who need practice with speed and accuracy.
How it works: It is a simple word processor that connects directly to a computer and transfers text. - Compensatory
- Features:
- $169
- Spellchecker, cut/copy/paste functions
- Dictionary, thesaurus
- Language based lessons, accuracy and speed builders
- Area it supports: Lower level mechanical and content skills
- Students it supports: Students who have a low typing speed, problems with fine motor skills, grammar and generating ideas. Also, it could benefit students with visual impairments because of the read aloud function, and the font size can be changed when it is transferred to a computer.
- How it works: It is a handheld device that you plug into the computer. You highlight/scan the text that you want to use, from any text source, and it scans it to the computer. When transferred, the text is editable and can be read aloud.
- Compensatory
- Features:
- $129.99
- Reads font sizes 6-22
- Text-to-speech
- Scans 100 characters per second
- 56 languages
- Easy to use and is hand held, so easily portable
- Area it supports: Lower level mechanical skills
- Students it supports: Students with fine motor skill challenges
How it works: With any Microsoft program, you press the shift button 5 times to enable the Sticky Key function. When enabled, it allows students to press one key at a time for functions that would normally use two keys. (Capitalizing letters for example, or pressing CTRL + ALT + DELETE) With sticky keys, you can press one key after the other and have it perform the same function.- Compensatory
- Features:
- Free
- Accessible from any computer
Timers
- Area it supports: Upper level mechanical skills
- Students it supports: Students who need supports with staying on task and building their speed of motor performances
- How it works: There are many different kinds of timers you can buy, but the purpose is you set a time limit for tasks.
- Remedial
- Features:
- Cost effective
- Can get different colors and sizes
- Easy to use
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