Resources for Dyslexia and Learning Disabilities
Note: WCSD has approved ONLY the Microsoft supports below for use on school devices. We have included resources to other supports that are not Microsoft for those families/students using their own device.
**Note: Microsoft Lens has been retired by Microsoft. See below for the helpful apps that are available that have the same features
- Add Accessibility Reader to the Control Center by using this quick tool to read any text on your iPad or iPhone screen. Add the shortcut to your Control Center. How to here
- Prizmo Go: Take pictures of worksheets/books/posters/any text and have it read to you
- SnapType Pro: Take pictures of worksheets and type or speak your answers right onto the worksheet, then send it to your teacher
- Read text aloud using the iPad's built in camera app
- How to use Text Suggestions (word prediction) in Microsoft: Like Co:Writer, but built in
- Microsoft Learning Tools – OneNote & Immersive Reader: Learn all the accessibility features in OneNote and Immersive Reader
- Read Aloud/Speak feature in Microsoft Edge Browser: Edge can read websites to you!
- Dictate in Word on a laptop/computer
- 3 Technology Must-Do's for Dyslexia at School
- Dyslexia Basics – LD Online
- Best Fonts for Dyslexia
- BeeLine Reader (available as a font in Bookshare and most apps used to access Bookshare)
- Supporting Dyslexia with Microsoft Tools
- Microsoft Accessibility (Windows - see headings for individual disabilities)