Supporting pupils with dyslexia using assistive technology

Shirley Lawson

CALL Scotland26th October 2019

Provide handouts with key points highlighted

Provide homework printed on a piece of paper that can be stuck into a jotter

Provide resources on coloured paper

Allow more time to read class novel

Allocate a reader and scribe to a student for exams and assessments

Technology to support reading difficulties

Technology to support writing difficulties

http://geon.github.io/programming/2016/03/03/dsxyliea

Using the iPad to support reading difficulties

• Speak Screen and Speak Selection• Safari Reader to clear webpage clutter• Seeing AI app to read out printed text (or clear

handwriting)• iPad apps for learners with dyslexia• Using the iPad to support dyslexia

More tools to support literacy difficulties

• Raising attainment with Microsoft Learning Tools

• Reader pens

• Text to speech

• Speech recognition

• Scottish computer voices

Books for All

RNIB Bookshare

www. callscotland.org.uk

shirley.lawson@ed.ac.uk