Check out these great assistive apps to help with reading and writing:
- ATBar is a free open-source toolbar to customize webpages to make them easier to read. Users can increase or decrease font sizes, have text read aloud, use colored overlays, adjust the readability, access a dictionary, and use spell check or word prediction to support writing.
- BeeLine Reader is a simple tool that helps students with dyslexia that assists with tracking and focusing on the text.
- ClaroRead is another excellent tool for reading and writing support with text-to-speech, built-in OCR, dictation, spell checker, dictionary, and more.
- Co:Writer is a comprehensive writing assistant with grammar and vocabulary-smart word prediction, translation, and speech recognition.
- Immersive Reader Extension makes Microsoft’s Immersive Reader available in Word and OneNote accessible in Chrome. Here’s a video on how the reading and writing support work at https://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=zzJ_eO1jaEA .
