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Determining Appropriate Reading Accommodations

• PAR Protocol for Accommodations in Reading
• uPAR

The PAR assists you in determining reading accommodations for your students by assessing their individual needs. Any IEP team member can administer the PAR.

Built in text to speech reading features:

•  Mac (accessibility) and  Windows(Ease of Access) text to speech features

Reading Tools For the Classroom

• Reading pens for checkout
• More Reading Pen Resources
• Access Text
• Teacher Tap
• IPL2-Kidspace 
• Tumble Readables
• Gutenberg Books
• Lit2go
• StarFall
• Storyline Online
• Planet Ebook
• Internet Public Library
• BookFlix
• True Flix

Reading Support

• Free Natural Reader
• Write: Outloud
• Read and Write Gold
• Kurzweil 3000
• Read Please
• Snap and Read
• JAWS
• Tarheel Reader

Chrome Browser Apps and Extensions to try:

• Read & Write for Google
• Select & Speak
• Voice Recognition

IOS OCR Apps

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the mechanical or electronic conversion of images of typewritten or printed text into machine-encoded text.

• Prizmo
• Cam Scanner- PDF Doc Scanner OCR
• Scanner with OCR

Text to Speech IOS Apps

• Voice Dream Reader
• Read2go App for Bookshare users
• iReadwrite
• Natural Reader Text To Speech

Note: GPAEA does not endorse any of the devices or applications listed on this site. It is the sole responsibility of the users of this site to try devices/applications listed and determine if they are applicable.