[etni] Re: Another LD option
- From: "Adele P. Raemer " <raemer@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <renew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <etni@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Aug 2009 10:06:01 +0300
Rene is absolutely correct! It would be a wonderful solution and I can
highly recommend it! Try it! Download it for free from:
http://www.readplease.com/
I highly recommend it, even for just doing homework and taking regular tests
for ALL kids who have Hakraat Sheilon. Using earphones, the students can
listen to the text and answer the questions on the word file! Try it!
Adele
(Am leaving Rene's IMPORTANT information here below, in case anyone missed
it)
Hi,
I'm surprised that no one mentioned the following option: replace the
various recording devices MP3, 4, 5, or CD (and worry about hidden files, or
the next new technology that makes these obsolete before we catch up with
them), and much more time effective.
Almost all schools today have computer labs. It is possible to copy and
paste any digital file (produced in WORD), into a text reading program.
Several of these programs are available FREE. Not only do they read the
text, but the kids can control the reading speed, the size of the text, its
color, the background (these options are very helpful for dislexic kids).
If the Ministry sends an email with whatever text needs to be read, or posts
it on a secured website (like the school website), it can be downloaded and
pasted into the text reader in as long as it takes you to click 'copy'
'paste'. If, during the test, the computers are disconnected from the
Internet, there can be no commuication between the kids taking the tests
(unless you're naive enough to leave them their mobile phones).
Not only is the text reader good for national tests, but since the teacher
prepares his/her class tests, quizes, hw on her computer anyhow, the text
reader can be used to read all of these, including the option of the kids to
download it to their home computers and do their homework with it. Today
many textbooks come with CD's that include text-based exercuses and/or
other work to accompany a textbook. These too can be copied and pasted into
the text reader. True, the reader has a robot-like voice, but if the kids
use it throughout the year, they soon get used to it. It's no harder than
getting used to listening to a Brit or Aussie accent if they're used to Yank
English.
This is a tool that all LD kids should be using and the sooner, the better,
so let's get up-to-date here.
Renee
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