National Webinar with Deirdre Madden (Access UCC Disability Support) & ESCI

What will I learn?
• What is assistive technology (AT).
• Advice on students using the computer well to make best use of Assistive Technology.
• About resources for students to learn or improve touch-typing skills.
• About Dragon Naturally Speaking – you talk, it types what you say and free alternatives in Google Docs, Microsoft Office 365 and on your phones.
• About free screen magnification and alteration options for the iPad and Windows.
• About magnification options for magnifying electronic and hard copies of text (incl. Zoomtext, Optiverso, Eclipse, Liberty Scholar.)
Brief introduction to Connect 12, Mercury 12, Reveal 16 & Polaris mini
• About a variety of scanning, OCR, typing and other useful apps including Seeing AI and Envision AI.
• About screen reading software (incl. JAWS and VoiceOver) and text to speech software
• How to get access to alternative learning materials and texts (electronic, audio, large print, Braille).

This webinar is suitable for for Primary and Post Primary teachers, SETs and SNAs.