Back to Plan and teach
Two ways in
READ
- Read&Write: Text-to-speech, word prediction, dictionary, installed on all college devices.
- Glean: Note-taking and recording for lectures. Particularly useful for ADHD and dyslexia.
- Immersive Reader: Built into Word, OneNote and Teams. Free, no referral needed.
- Dictation (Windows + Word): Speech-to-text for learners who struggle with typing.
- Talk to the learner: confirm the barrier and the goal.
- Email Disability Services with a one-line summary of need.
- An AT specialist meets the learner within 10 working days.
- Tools are set up on their device with a short training session.
- Allow recording.
- Allow laptops.
- Allow headphones.
- If a learner uses AT, your default settings should let it work: no need to ask for permission each time.
TRY AND KEEP
Match the tool to the barrier
Four tools from the page. Match each one to what it does, then to the barrier it helps with.
Free to use now, or a referral?
Seven moments in a session. For each one, can the learner use it now, or does it need a referral?
The four tools, the referral steps and what to allow, from the page. It prints on one side of A5.
- Read&Write
- Glean
- Immersive Reader
- Dictation (Windows + Word)
- Referral process
- Embedding AT in your sessions