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Don Johnston Partners with Benetech/Bookshare
to Provide FREE Technology Access to Thousands of Online Educational
Materials for Students with Print Disabilities
As part of their $32 million U.S. Department of Education OSEP award, Bookshare chose Read:OutLoud by Don Johnston Incorporated as the text reader that would best achieve the goal of providing access to reading materials and enabling students to read texts with comprehension.
In 2009, students who qualify under the Chafee copyright exemption amendment will use Don Johnston’s Read:OutLoud® Bookshare Edition text reader to access thousands of electronic books, educational materials and resources in NIMAS and DAISY from the Bookshare website. The program’s goal is to eliminate barriers for students with reading disabilities and to provide the necessary tools to ensure access to the general curriculum, materials and textbooks.
Read:OutLoud Bookshare Edition Product Information
Key Features:
- Text-to-speech reads Bookshare content
- eHighlighter and Note tools cultivate text-to-self connections
- Bibliographer logs and organizes sources in a structured step-by-step process
Benefits:
- Provides access to classroom content – Students with print disabilities can access curriculum-based information through electronic books available from Bookshare
- Supports reading comprehension – Read:OutLoud provides the structure and a robust set of tools students use to independently practice comprehension strategies recommended by the National Reading Panel Report and Reading Next.
- Increases knowledge in any subject area – Students highlight key information creating an information outline to organize and clarify their content understanding.
Determine which text reader is right for you. This functionality lookup chart compares features found in Read:OutLoud, Read:OutLoud Bookshare.org Edition and the ClassMate Reader.
Update as of 4.2.09
The windows version of Read:OutLoud Bookshare Edition is posted on www.bookshare.org/readingTools. You must be signed in to Bookshare to download Read:OutLoud. For membership information go to www.bookshare.org
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