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Learning Support Tools

Learning Ally
access digital audiobooks
Check with the Learning Resources Team or the librarians to get your username and password
BookShare
access digital audiobooks
Check with the Learning Resources Team for your username and password
Speechify
Human Quality Text to Speech App. Scan a book with your camera, have it read out loud.
Listen to your favorite Books, PDFs, and Articles.

Accessible Documents

Accessibility Checker

When scanning documents using the copy machines, make sure you've turned on the OCR (Optical Character Recognition) function. This allows those documents to be accessible with screen readers. To turn on the fuction, check the file format:

Then make sure the OCR box is selected:

Articles

Classroom Accommodations to Help Students with Dyslexia
via Understood.org, Our 15 founding nonprofit organizations are diverse in their specialties, but united by a common desire to help parents help children. We’ve come together to bring parents a comprehensive resource on Learning and Attention issues.
Differentiated Instruction
Build lessons, develop teaching materials, and vary your approach so that all students, regardless of where they are starting from, can learn content effectively, according to their needs.
Differentiated Instruction: featured articles
via ASCD
Dyscalculia
via the Learning Disabilities Association of America
Dyslexia Definition and Resources
via The International Dyslexia Association
Five Tips for Getting Started With Differentiation in a Secondary Classroom
via ASCD
Learning Disabilities/ADHD Information Resources
via the Learning Disabilities Association of America
What is ADHD?
via Understood.org
What is Dysgraphia?
via ADDitude Magazine online, "Inside the ADHD mind"

Books in Our Collection

Assessment and Student Success in a Differentiated Classroom by Carol Ann Tomlinson; Tonya R. Moon
Call Number: PD 371.39 TOM

ISBN: 9781416616177

Publication Date: 2013-09-05
The Complete Learning Disabilities Handbook by Joan M. Harwell; Rebecca Williams Jackson
Call Number: PD 371.9 HAR

ISBN: 9780787997557

Publication Date: 2008-10-20
The Differentiated Classroom by Carol Ann Tomlinson; Carol A. Tomlinson
Call Number: PD 371.39 TOM

ISBN: 9781416618607

Publication Date: 2014-05-20
Differentiated Instruction by Deborah Blaz
Call Number: PD 418 BLA

ISBN: 9781138906181

Publication Date: 2016-03-01
The Dyslexic Advantage by Brock L. Eide; Fernette F. Eide
Call Number: PD 616.85 EID

ISBN: 9780452297920

Publication Date: 2012-07-31
Exploring Differentiated Instruction by Cindy Strickland
Call Number: PD 371.39 STR

ISBN: 9781416608349

Publication Date: 2009-01-01
How to Differentiate Instruction in Academically Diverse Classrooms, 3rd Edition by Carol Ann Tomlinson
Call Number: PD 371.39 TOM

ISBN: 9781416623304

Publication Date: 2017-03-22
How to Reach and Teach Children with ADD/ADHD by Sandra F. Rief
Call Number: PD 371.94 RIE

ISBN: 0787972959

Publication Date: 2005-03-17
Overcoming Dyslexia by Sally Shaywitz
Call Number: PD 371.91 SHA

ISBN: 9780679781592

Publication Date: 2005-01-04
The Reading Strategies Book by Jennifer Serravallo
Call Number: PD 372.4 SER

ISBN: 9780325074337

Publication Date: 2015-05-20
Smart but Scattered Teens by Richard Guare; Peg Dawson; Colin Guare
Call Number: 306.874 GUA

ISBN: 9781609182298

Publication Date: 2012-12-17