Welcome back everyone!  Thank you for checking out the METC Podcast!  We felt that this would be a wonderful topic to share at the beginning of the school year.  As we all know, it is important for us as educators to ensure that all students are growing.  Some students need additional support and/or resources to be successful.  Well, my guest for this episode is Rashell Mehring.  She is a special education teacher and works with assistive technology for the Special School District here in St. Louis, MO.  At the time of the recording, she worked for the St. Louis Regional Professional Development Center as a Special Education Consultant.

Within this episode, Rashell shares many different resources to assist our students in four major areas.  The resources she mentions are linked below so please check them out.  Also be sure to reach out to Rashell and connect with her on social media.

Episode's Guest:

Rashell Mehring - Special School District of St. Louis County, MO @rmehr02

Resources Shared:

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) at http://www.cast.org/

Understood.org

Jamie Martin at https://www.atdyslexia.com/

Twitter @ATDyslexia

Rashell Mehring Twitter @rmehr02

Text to Speech- Digital text read aloud by a device

Read&Write for Google Chrome (Chrome Extension)

@texthelp

Text to speech feature is a feature that is available in free version for students

Premium features are free for educators sign up using this link https://www.texthelp.com/en-us/products/free-for-teachers/

Snap&Read (Chrome Extension)

Free for 30 days for the trial period

ClaroRead (Chrome Extension)

Speechify (Chrome Extension)

Select and Speak (Chrome Extension) by ispeech.org extension

Built-in sites like Readworks.org

Dictation- Spoken words converted into digital text on a device

Google Docs and Google Slides Presenter notes

Tap on Tools

Tap on Voice Typing

Enable microphone if asked

Tap on microphone to begin and end dictation

Chromebook (Utilize the on-screen keyboard to enable voice typing)

Display Accommodations- font size, font color (minimize the use of red font), spacing between lines of text, words, and letters

Visor (Chrome Extension)

nOverlay (Chrome Extension)

OpenDyslexic (Chrome Extension)

Mercury Reader (Chrome Extension)

Dualless (Chrome Extension)

Tools for Executive Functioning Issues

Google Keep

Google Keep (Chrome Extension)

Location or date/time reminders

Checklists

Color coding of topics

Take pictures of assignments or important information

Voice notes in the mobile app