ReadSpeaker: Accessibility Tools Supporting YOU and YOUR students

Description

Abraham Lincoln once stated, “When I read aloud, two senses catch the idea: first, I see what I read; second, I hear it, and therefore I can remember it better.”  Expanding on Lincoln's idea, ReadSpeaker’s text-to-speech technology incorporates more than you seeing and hearing your material. Our suite of tools perfectly fit Universal Design for Learning: the WHAT of learning, the HOW of learning, and the WHY of learning.

ReadSpeaker has developed easy to implement, cost-effective solutions to allow educational institutions to integrate text to speech quickly and easily, promoting engagement, increasing comprehension and depth of learning. It also has been proven to boost motivation and self-esteem, aid with assessments, reduce screen fatigue, and improve learning results.

ReadSpeaker's tools are utilized in Quality Matters professional development courses. Now, here is your chance to learn more about our offerings that you can take back to your institution and students, which will provide a more meaningful, accessible engagement with their lessons.

Learning Objectives:

1 – Assessment: The attendee will learn how quizzes can be read aloud, how to utilize helpful features such as larger text size, the page mask tool, and presentation in a text mode.

2- Learner Interaction: The attendee will learn about various ReadSpeaker tools that support learner interaction utilizing multi-modal representation; Press, click, listen

3– Accessibility: The attendee will learn why it is important to utilize personalized Settings, Page Mask, Enlarged Text, Text Mode, and highlighting of material.

Presenter First Name:
Ginger
Presenter Last Name:
Dewey
Presenter Email:
ginger.dewey@readspeaker.com
Names of Co-Presenters
Paul Stisser
Conference