Read&Write Chrome Extension

Today I met with Leandra Elion, the Watertown High School reading specialist who utilizes many great tools to help her students.  I showed her how to add extensions to student accounts (students have to sign into Chrome).  She wanted to add Read&Write to a student's account. It was shown to her by our elementary OT and resident assistive technology specialist Beth Lloyd.  Read&Write is a multi-faceted assistive technology free extension from Chrome that supports Google docs by supplying

• Text To Speech with Dual Synchronized Highlighting.
• Talking Dictionary
• Picture Dictionary
• Vocabulary Tool
• Study Skills tools to capture Google highlights

Here is the menu

Here is a screen cast showing you more about Read&Write