Assistive Technology for Students who are Blind/Visually Impaired

Assistive Technology for Students who are Blind/Visually Impaired - Online Workshop

For Primary and Post-Primary Teachers and SNAs.

Course delivered by Deirdre Madden - Assisive Technology Outreach Coordinator for UCC Disability Support Service.

What will I learn?

• What is assistive technology (AT).
• Advice on students using the computer well to make best use of Assistive Technology..
• About resources for students to learn or improve touch-typing skills.
• About Dragon Naturally Speaking – you talk, it types what you say and on free alternatives.
• About free screen magnification and alteration options for the iPad and Windows.
• About magnification options for magnifying electronic and hard copies of text (incl. Zoomtext, Optiverso, Eclipse, Liberty Scholar.)
• About a variety of scanning, OCR, typing and other useful apps.
• About screen reading software (incl. JAWS and VoiceOver) and text to speech software
• How to get access to alternative learning materials and texts ( electronic, audio, large print, Braille)
• About DARE (Disability Access Route to Education) and HEAR (Higher Education Access Route)

 A link to access the course will be emailed to you prior to this course.