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Sensory Accommodations

Tools and accommodations to allow a student with deficits in vision or hearing to participate in the classroom.
Screenshot of a split screen, on the left side there is a list of article titles and one of them is highlighted and on the right side, appears the full text of the highlighted article.

A free program designed for blind and visually-impaired people that makes RSS feeds accessible.

Emacspeak logo with a framed photo of a yellow labrador dog that is wearing a guide harness and has a speech bubble saying: Complete Audio Desktop.

Emacspeak is a speech interface that allows visually impaired users to interact independently and efficiently with the computer.

A small handheld device featuring an interactive screen, a microphone and speaker above, and control buttons on either side.

A portable and affordable digital audio book player helps students increase their reading speed, comprehension, and vocabulary. 

Word processing program featuring a selection of text an illustration.

Page scanning software that reads text aloud with adjustable reading speed.

Rectangular device with document scanning platform and control buttons on the front.

A printed text reader designed for blind and visually impaired people, as well as people who have problems with printed text for other reasons such as reading, learning or language difficulties.

A device that resembles a standard flatbed scanner with large, touch button controls on the inclined, front side.

A scanning and reading system for the blind that can also be connected to a braille display for the deaf-blind.

Orca

A free, open source, extensible screen reader that provides access to the graphical desktop via user-customizable combinations of speech and/or braille.

A device that looks like a flatbed scanner with a control panel in front and.a camera arm positioned above the scanner.

A self-contained scanning and reading appliance for people who are blind or have low vision and is designed to be easy to use by people with no computer experience.

Fixed camera above a book with the text and image magnified on a connected laptop screen.

A portable camera system that gives dyslexic users near-instant access to practically any physical document. Using Lex software, a document can be read aloud and shown in a choice of text size, color, and formatting.

A stand magnifier with a camera at the top, and beneath, a platform base for placing materials on.

Are easy-to-use scanning and reading appliances for people who have difficulty reading printed text.