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assistive technology and individuals with
learning disabilities
Assistive technology
for students with learning disabilities.
Text-to-speech, word prediction and voice
recognition have been very helpful in enabling
individuals with learning disabilities.
Discrete speech recognition programs were very
helpful 4 to 6 years. Continuous speech programs
are beginning to reach the level of accuracy and
ease of training to also become extremely helpful
to students who have trouble processing the sounds
of words. The smallest unit the individual would
have to process would be the whole word.
Word
prediction also offers a great advantage in its
ability to display the word after only a few
letters have been typed.
Text-to-speech
software offers benefits in several areas. It can
read to the student and includes a dictionary. It
can also search for information and allow
important information to be highlighted. The could
be more efficient for all students.
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