This document discusses hands-on activities demonstrating the Kurzweil 3000 text-to-speech tool. It describes Kurzweil as a powerful but expensive tool that can help students with reading disabilities, visual impairments, language processing needs, and comprehension issues. The document outlines the steps for a Kurzweil demonstration, including opening the software, exploring toolbar features, loading a sample text, using text-to-speech and highlighting functions, and creating bubbles for questions to aid reading comprehension.

1. HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES: KURZWEIL 3000
(TEXT-TO-SPEECH TOOL)
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2. BREAK：A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SPECIAL
EDUCATION TEACHER
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3. HERE’S THE IDEA
• In these activities, we will look at two ends of the
same spectrum – tools to help students with reading
related needs
o Visual disabilities
o Language-processing needs
o Organizational and comprehension-related needs
• A Powerful tool– Kurzweil
o Kurzweil is extremely powerful, but very expensive
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4. KURZWEIL
• For Kurzweil:
o ULA/Instructor Demo (we cannot open too many copies of
Kurzweil at a time, due to licensing constraints)
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5. KURZWEIL DEMONSTRATION(ULA DEMO ONLY)
STEPS:
1. Open prezi link (for overview of steps)
2. Open Kurzweil software- (search on all program)
3. Toolbar features (top of the page, 4 menus)
4. Download sample chapter from Oncourse (opens in Kurzweil)
5. Reading text out loud (sentences/Speed/Voices/Prediction)
6. Highlighting words
7. Creating bubbles ( Questions:T/F, Multiple Choice,
Matching/Essay)
8. Reading webpages
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