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Don Johnston Partners with Benetech/Bookshare.org
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.org 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.
Beginning at the start of the 2008-09 school year, students who qualify under Chafee will use Don Johnston’s Read:OutLoud® Bookshare.org Edition text reader to access thousands of electronic books, educational materials and resources in NIMAS and DAISY from the Bookshare.org 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.org Edition Product Information
Key Features:
- Text-to-speech reads Bookshare.org 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.org
- 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.
Release schedule: The Windows version will be available at the start of the 08-09 school year and the Mac version will be available in 2009.
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