Use What You Have

Use What You HaveAccessibility features and free tools to assist kids with Learning+Accessibility Features in a PCAll accessibilities for the PC are found in the Ease of Access section. Under the start menu go to control panel-then ease of access.

+What accessibility features are there in a PC?Narrator: It reads everything on the screen. Can be used with students with vision impairments or students with reading difficulties.Magnifier: Zooms or magnifies the screen. Can be used with students with vision impairments.On screen keyboard: Students can type while using the mouse by using the on screen keyboard. This is helpful not only as a teaching tool for learning where the letters are in typing, but for those students who have physical impairments. The on screen keyboard has a dwell feature as well where students hover over the letter they want to type and it types it.

In all operating systems

+Additional Features in Vista, 7 and, 8Speech recognition: Speech recognition is embedded in the Accessibilities starting Vista. This is another option for students who are verbal and can not type. Students need to be able to read as there is a training process that is involved in order to train the computer to your voice. Use text or visual alternatives to sounds: Here you can turn on captions for spoken dialog. This can be helpful for students learning English as a second language, students who with hearing impairments, and for students who have difficulty processing auditory information.

+Accessibility features on a MacFor a Mac you find the accessibility features through the little apple up at the top-going to system preferences-then universal access

+Accessibility features in a Mac

VoiceOverScreen MagnificationCursor MagnificationSafari Reader- takes out all the distractions when viewing text on the web.Talking CalculatorClosed CaptioningOnscreen KeyboardConverting text to speech+Accessibility features on an iPadUnder settings- go to general then accessibilityUnder accessibility you can turn on of off features to support learning.These features include:

VoiceoverZoomLarge textSpeak Selection (text to speech)Speak auto text (Speak all auto corrections)Guided Access-locks you into one app at a time. Can not use the home button to get out of the app.Assistive touch+Accessibility feature in WordAutoSummarize determines key points by analyzing the document and assigning a score to each sentence. Sentences that contain words used frequently in the document are given a higher score. You then choose a percentage of the highest-scoring sentences to display in the summary. You can find it in the tools section of the Mac version of Word or under Autosummarize Tools in the PC version of Word.For more details go to http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/word-help/automatically-summarize-a-document-HA010255206.aspx?CTT=1In Microsoft Word 2007

+8Accessibility features in PowerpointAdd a recording to tell the story Insert picturesInsert a video that they have recordedInsert hyperlinks to websites

+Free tools to make learning fun!! (reading and language arts)Wordle: http://www.wordle.nethttp://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/6353785/Accessibility_toolsStoryline online: http://www.storylineonline.net/ Graphic Organizers: http://my.hrw.com/nsmedia/intgos/html/igo.htm On screen keyboard- ClicknType: http://cnt.lakefolks.com/Open source accesibility features: www.oatsoft.org/Ginger software (spell checker and grammar checker): http://www.gingersoftware.com/

+More free tools! (Math)http://www.efofex.com/empower.php (Math)http://nlvm.usu.edu/en/nav/vlibrary.html (National Library of Virtual Manipulatives)http://www.usmint.gov/kids/games/ (Coin games)http://www.thinkingblocks.com/ (visuals for math)+Additional resources at the QR codes above District websites on ipad apps and more Assistive technology

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