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Listen EVERYWHERE in High School Theater Brings Clear Audio to Those with Hearing Loss

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It also sought to install assistive technology to accommodate students and guests with hearing loss. Assistive listening systems retailer Oreille Bionique recommended Listen EVERYWHERE , an audio over Wi-Fi assistive listening system, and provided a demo unit for the high school to test in the theater.

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5 FETC 2024 sessions that grabbed our attention

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Plus, they’ll learn best practices and current trends to best leverage educational technology resources. In the standardized testing era, students are too often asked to memorize facts and/or recall ideas without being expected to retain a deeper understanding of information.

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How to create a dyslexia-friendly environment in your school

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In “ Creating a Dyslexia-Friendly School ,” Terrie Noland, national director, Educator Engagement for Learning Ally, presented on early intervention for dyslexic students, using the right AT (assistive technology) tools and accommodations for each learner, and creating environments in which students can thrive. Develop Guidelines.

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Assessments Become More Accessible With Speech Synthesis—and an Almost Human Voice

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For the assessment mavens at Educational Testing Service ( ETS ), these evolving capabilities present both a challenge and an opportunity, says the organization’s Markku “Mark” Häkkinen. EdSurge spoke with Häkkinen about the impact of new speech synthesis technologies on student assessments, and how his company is making the most of them.

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10 steps for making your online courses accessible for all students

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In other words, educators need more than just assistive technology to create a UDL-friendly online course. And in engagement and interaction , an instructor is enabled to tap into students’ interests, challenge and motivate them to learn.

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Teacher-Authors: What’s Happening on my Writer’s Blog

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Most prominent educational testing centers (like SAT, ACT, PARC, and SBACC) make these available for most of their tests. HumanWare Hardware HumanWare offers assistive technology for people who are blind or have low vision. These include text-to-speech, translations, webpage readers, and more.

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How Tablet Games Can Teach Skills to Students with Visual Impairments

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Schultz has taken a career in building special needs software and games for people who are blind or have low vision into ObjectiveEd, a new endeavor at a time when investor interest in educational tools and investor interest in assistive technology are apparently on the rise. million across 38 deals in 2012 to $276.5

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