Assistive

Technologies
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What are assistive technologies?

• Assistive technologies are apps or websites that can help

aid for a specific problem. For the educational setting,
assistive technologies can help aid teachers with students
who have learning disabilities. Depending on the kind,
assistive technologies can also work independently with
students.
Amazon Polly
Amazon Polly
and Vision
Impairment
• Amazon Polly is a service that
allows text to be turned into life
like speech. It can be used by
students who visual difficulties.
Students who have difficulty
seeing often are left behind
when it comes to class
assignments when it involves
reading.
• Amazon Polly offers a way
through the difficult situation. It
offers visually impaired students
a way to get through text
assignments easily.
Amazon Polly

• It is available in 23 languages and different dialects for

English, French, and Spanish
• Amazon Polly is offered through a usage basis. There are a
specific amount of characters included in a plan
• They offer a free plan which includes 5 million characters a
month. If more characters are read beyond the limit, there
is an additional price, like $16 for an additional 1 million
characters (Compusult)
Jouse3
Jouse3
• Jouse3 is a hardware device that
was created for people who
have paralysis or have issues with
their fine motor skills. Students
who have issues with their fine
motor skills tend to not have
much experience with computer
because most are not adapted
in a way to help them.
• It works as a Sip-and-Puff style
machine. The user simply moves
the joystick with their mouth and
it works as a type of mouse. It
connects to a computer through
USB and senses the motion and
registers it as an action.
Jouse3

• Jouse3 may be a helpful product, but it is not very

affordable.
• It costs $1,387.98 (Compusult)
• They may offer discounts for schools if they order the
product
Ginger
Ginger
• Ginger is an app that can be
used by students who have
Dyslexia and other
reading/writing learning
disorders.
• It offers a revision sequence for
students where it can edit writing
for spelling mistakes.
• It also offers sentences
rephrasing and word prediction.
• Text-to-Speech is also included
so students can hear their writing
read out loud.
Ginger

• It is available as a Google Chrome extension and is

automatically in use once installed.
• Ginger is free! To a point anyways.
• Though it is free, there are limits on its features,
• There are different plans for unlimited features.
• For unlimited features, it is about $89.88 a year. For
teachers and students, they offer 70% off! (Ginger)
References

Amazon Polly. Amazon. (2015). Retrieved August 2, 2022, from

https://aws.amazon.com/polly/

Jouse 3 mouth controlled USB joystick by Compusult. adaptive

specialties, llc. (n.d.). Retrieved August 2, 2022, from
https://www.adaptivespecialties.com/jouse-3-mouth-controlled-
usb-joystick-by-compusult.aspx

Ginger software: English Grammar & Writing app. Ginger

Software | English Grammar & Writing App. (n.d.). Retrieved
August 2, 2022, from https://www.gingersoftware.com/