Reading Resources for Special Needs

Links checked 7-1-09

1. Ghotit - Offers unique writing and reading online services for people with dyslexia, dysgraphia or people who are not native-English speakers. Type in reports or sentences and it will correct errors using color coding. Right click on the words with the color and select the appropriate spellings.
2. Natural Reader - Text to Speech free software. Download the Free version.
3. Project Gutenberg - Project Gutenberg is the first and largest single collection of free electronic books, or eBooks.
4. ReadPlease - Reads any text you can copy and paste into the reader- all purpose text-to-speech software. Download the 2003 version (it’s free), not the Plus version for which there is a charge. After downloading this application, go back to download two Spanish voices.
5. Simply Web 2000 - speech friendly, speech enabled accessible web browser with advance features that allow easy navigation of complex pages by blind users.
   
6. Strategies to Help Kids Who Struggle with Reading - many articles that suggest strategies to help students.
7. Why They Struggle - Check these articles to find out more about why kids struggle with reading.
8. WordTalk - works only for PCs - reads text in MS Word applications. Free software to download and configure into your MS Word program.

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