Students

Resources for Students

Youth2youth is a great site for high school students getting ready to transition into post-secondary education. It provides some excellent materials describing the differences between high school and post secondary approaches to AT and Learning Disabilities. It is a site created by students with Learning Disabilities.

• www.youth2youth.ca

This section of the SNOW website explains Assistive Technology in general and provides detailed descriptions of screen readers and speech-to-text software, including things to consider in choosing software:

• https://snow.idrc.ocadu.ca/assistive-technology-2/

Sources for ebooks and audio books. Ottawa Public Library’s Overdrive Program:

• overdrive.biblioottawalibrary.ca/ 1C8F3F74-E58B-4E03-85AB-F67DE745D711/ 10/367/en/BrowseYouth.htm

Gutenberg Project – free downloads

• www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

Mercury Reader is an extension for Chrome that will remove all the clutter including ads, recommendations, dialogs, social buttons, comments and almost everything distracting, and extract the actual content. It will only show the website name, the actual text content photos/videos inside that content, and all the links in it. All you have to do is install the extension in your favorite browser and then open any article on the web. See below for Firefox and Safari options.

• https://mercury.postlight.com/reader

Firefox Reader:

• https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/firefox-reader-view-clutter-free-web-pages

Safari Reader View:

• https://www.macrumors.com/how-to/enable-automatic-reader-view-in-safari/

Cast tool: the strategy tutor helps students with multi step projects (free but students need to make an account)

• cst.cast.org/cst/auth-login

A great site to help students who need to prepare any science project:

• sciencewriter.cast.org/welcome

Learning to self-advocate from the Pacer institute:

• http://www.pacer.org/transition/learning-center/employment/self-advocacy.asp