Research Guides: Assistive Technology: Reading

Reading

Technology can help children and adults work around their reading challenges. Text-to-speech and audiobooks are two examples of reading technology. These assistive technology tools can be used on computers, smartphones and other devices.

C-Pen Reader Pen

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C-Pen Reader Pen
Portable scanning pen which reads printed text out loud using an embedded camera, a real time optical character recognition and natural voice to text speech.

Text Highlighters

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Text Highlighters
Portable Highlighters can be a useful tool to help readers remember key words. The use of highlighters could be used to point out words that are vocabulary words or critical words that students should know or are struggling to pronounce or remember

Page Flipper

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Page Flipper
Page flippers are designed to turn and hold a page on a book to promote independence in reading for people with disabilities and decreased hand function.