This document provides recommendations for assistive technology tools to match students with various profiles to support their learning needs. It lists student profiles that may include being read to, dyslexia, dysgraphia, highly visual learning, highly auditory learning, difficulty with organization, studying, or as an English language learner. For each profile it recommends a minimum set of Read and Write Gold assistive technology tools for teachers to be familiar with to help that student.

1. Assistive Technology Feature Matching
A I S D
Matching Students to Technology Using
Read and Write Gold
Student Profile Tools
Student has class work read by At a minimum the teacher should be familiar with:
a human reader. • Speech Tools (rewind, play, pause, fast forward and stop)
• Web Highlighting
• Speech Maker
• PDF Aloud
• Screen Shot Reader
• Scan
Dyslexia At a minimum the teacher should be familiar with:
Characteristics of Dyslexia • Spelling Tool
• Word Prediction
• Homophone Tools
• Dictionary/Picture Dictionary
• Speech Tools (rewind, play, pause, fast forward and stop)
• Web Highlighting
• Speech Maker
• PDF Aloud
• Scan
• Screen Masking
• Screen Shot Reader
• Daisy Reader
• Speech to Text
• Highlight Tools (pink, yellow, green, blue, collect highlights
and clear highlights)
• Summary tool used by teacher to provide pre-reading and
post reading summaries.
Dysgraphic At a minimum the teacher should be familiar with:
• Spelling Tool
• Word Prediction
• Word Wizard
• Homophone Tools
• Dictionary/Picture Dictionary
• Speech Tools (rewind, play, pause, fast forward and stop)r
• Speech to Text
• Highlight Tools (pink, yellow, green, blue, collect highlights
and clear highlights)
1 Compiled by Michelle Nielsen, M.S. CCC-SLP

2. Student Profile Tools
Highly Visual At a minimum the teacher should be familiar with:
Speech Tools (rewind, play, pause, fast forward and stop)
• Web Highlighting
• Fact Finder
• Fact Folder
• Fact Mapper
• Highlight Tools (pink, yellow, green, blue, collect highlights
and clear highlights)
• Screening Masking
Highly Auditory Student headphones are recommended.
At a minimum the teacher should be familiar with:
• Spelling Tool
• Word Prediction
• Dictionary/Picture Dictionary
• Speech Tools (rewind, play, pause, fast forward and stop)
• Web Highlighting
• Speech Maker
• PDF Aloud
• Scan
• Screen Shot Reader
• Daisy Reader
• Highlight Tools (pink, yellow, green, blue, collect highlights
and clear highlights)
• Summary tool used by teacher to provide pre-reading and
post reading summaries.
Disorganized At a minimum the teacher should be familiar with:
Difficulty organizing thoughts • Speech Tools (rewind, play, pause, fast forward and stop)
• Web Highlighting
• Screen Shot Reader
• Fact Finder
• Fact Folder
• Fact Mapper
• Highlight Tools (pink, yellow, green, blue, collect highlights
and clear highlights)
• Summary tool used by teacher to provide pre-reading and
post reading summaries.
2 Compiled by Michelle Nielsen, M.S. CCC-SLP

3. Student Profile Tools
Difficulty with Studying At a minimum the teacher should be familiar with:
• Speech Tools (rewind, play, pause, fast forward and stop)
• Web Highlighting
• Screen Shot Reader
• Fact Finder
• Fact Folder
• Fact Mapper
• Highlight Tools (pink, yellow, green, blue, collect highlights
and clear highlights)
• Summary tool used by teacher to provide pre-reading and
post reading summaries.
English Language Learner At a minimum the teacher should be familiar with:
• Spelling Tool
• Word Prediction
• Homophone Tools
• Dictionary/Picture Dictionary
• Speech Tools, This includes the ability to change the default
voice to Paulina or Isobel and back. (rewind, play, pause,
fast forward and stop)
• Web Highlighting
• Speech Maker
• PDF Aloud
• Scan
• Screen Masking
• Screen Shot Reader
• Translator
• Highlight Tools (pink, yellow, green, blue, collect highlights
and clear highlights)
Summary tool used by teacher to provide pre-reading and
post reading summaries.
Scotopic Sensitivity At a minimum the teacher should be familiar with:
Irlen Syndrome • Speech Tools (rewind, play, pause, fast forward and stop)
Visual Stress • Web Highlighting
• Speech Maker
• Screen Shot Reader
• PDFAloud
• Screening Masking
3 Compiled by Michelle Nielsen, M.S. CCC-SLP