Text-to-Speech Software
Overview
Providing tools so learners can choose to listen supports individual strengths and needs.
Example: Use This Strategy In in the Classroom
Design It into Your Product
Use It in the Classroom
Watch how text-to-speech software helps students who struggle with reading. By using their Auditory Processing skills, these students show that they comprehend complex reading material.
Design It into Your Product
Learn how developers of Read&Write for Google used text-to-speech software in combination with other features to provide multisensory support for reading and understanding a text. Providing the ability to highlight words for an audio pronunciation with an accompanying visual activates verbal and visual Working Memory. Highlighting the spoken word in a different color from the yellow highlighted sentence strengthens Visual Processing skills through tracking.
Additional Resources
Additional examples, research, and professional development. These resources are possible representations of this strategy, not endorsements.
Factors Supported by this Strategy
More Multisensory Supports Strategies
Audiobooks allow students to hear fluent reading and to experience books above their reading skills.
A guided reading strip helps students focus by keeping their place as they read.
Providing physical representations of concepts helps learners activate mental processes.
Connecting information to music and/or dance moves enhances memory by drawing on auditory processes and the cognitive benefits of physical activity.
Using earplugs or headphones can increase focus and comfort.
Incorporating multiple senses with strategies like chewing gum, using a vibrating pen, and sitting on a ball chair supports focus and Attention.
Tossing a ball, beanbag, or other small object activates physical focus in support of mental focus.
Research shows physical activity improves learner focus and creativity.
A web dictionary can serve as a resource for students to expand their Vocabulary knowledge.
