Kurzweil 3000

Recently a group of my students and I attended an interactive tour at Butte-Glenn Community College. The tour was called Jump Start to College. One of the activities we participated in was an overview of available assistive technology at the college for DSPS students. They had a program called Kurzweil which is software you can scan a book into and it will read the text out loud. The software will also let you type and then read what you have typed. A couple things I like about it were the ability to reach various types of learning styles and the feature of highlighting the words as it reads. You can also look up meanings of unknown words using hte built in dictionary. After the field trip I researched the cost of this software and found it to be quite expensive. But if you have a high need for it in your classroom, it would definately be money well spent.