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Here you’ll learn the basics of assistive technology for reading and writing support. We’ll help you understand how to evaluate your child’s specific needs and how determine which tools might work best. We’ll teach you how to pick the right assistive technology and we’ll help you implement it into your child’s life.

Superfast Speech: Listen quicker to capture more information
Headstrong Nation has a series of tool videos where they walk you through how to get started using a variety of technology tools. In this video you will learn about how to adjust the speech rate on text-to-speech. This technology will read to the learner text from documents, emails or eBooks. By increasing the speed of the audio, the listener can increase the amount of information that they are able to process becoming a more effecient 'ear reader'.'
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