How can I get printed text read out loud?
For many years now the ability to read screen-based text has been available for students and employees within whatever context that they...
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- Dec 8, 2022
A student’s experience of using assistive technology to support learning with ADHD.
Isaac is a third-year‘ economics and politics’ undergraduate at Oxford University. Diagnosed with ADHD by a GP when he first attended...
- Sep 7, 2022
Want to get a deeper understanding of Text To Speech Assistive Technology?
Join our September training sessions with Mary Wilcox. It is September and the Autumn Term has started, universities will be starting...
- Aug 23, 2022
Preparing For the Workplace: School leavers and literacy.
There is a lot taking place at this time of year. GCSE and A-Level results are out, places at university are being secured but for many...
- Jul 27, 2022
How to make text in documents easier to read at school or university when experiencing visual stress
In his paper entitled “Visual stress and dyslexia for the practising optometrist.” Prof Arnold Wilkins from the University of Essex...
- Jun 21, 2022
How to access text whilst on the go.
Text-to-speech technology has developed so well over the years that now it is available to use within so many different contexts such as...
- Apr 28, 2022
How can text books in Secondary Education be more accessible for dyslexic readers in KS3?
It is a little-known fact that UK law requires the publishers of school text books to provide the electronic version of their text books...
- Mar 10, 2022
The Top Five Things That Teachers Need To Know About Text To Speech Technology
Within the education system, there is little training for Primary and Secondary school teachers on supporting pupils with learning...
- Jan 26, 2022
What is Text-To-Speech and how should my dyslexic child use it at school?
Aventido’s very own Mary Wilcox took part in a webinar with The Studying With Dyslexia Blog to share her expertise in text-to-speech...
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