Assistive Technologies for Students
Below is a selection of software and apps that can help with writing—including dictation, typing, editing, organization, spelling, phrasing, and proofreading.
You can use them on a computer or on mobile devices—such as tablets, iPads, and smartphones. (In my opinion, you don’t have to add text—just headings, as appropriate.)
| Purpose/Use | Software/Operating System Name | Mode of Operation / Operation Symbol |
| Writing | Google Docs | Voice Typing |
| Office 365 | The Script | |
| iPhone, iOS | Definition - Keyboard input options | |
| Mathematical writing | Word | Add-Compare/Formula Menu |
| Apple Pencil iPad + stylus | Handwriting to Print Conversion | |
| Google Docs – Chrome extension | Voice writing (in English) of formulas and conversion from handwriting to print | |
| Academic writing | Word | Creating a list of sources in Word |
| Text Prediction | Word 365 | |
| LightKey | Completion of words and sentences, spelling and grammar correction. |
| Purpose/Use | Software/Operating System Name | Free / Paid | Mode of Operation |
Text-to-speech Online | Text-to-speech in Google Chrome browser | Free | Read aloud
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| Text-to-speech in Microsoft Edge browser | Free | Read aloud
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| Text-to-speech in documents | Text-to-speech in Word | Requires a Word usage license | Read aloud
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| Reading documents in Acrobat | Not available in Hebrew – will be added later. | ||
| Text-to-speech in operating systems | Live text reading using iPhone
| Free | Live text. Instructions for Live Text Usage on iPhone PDF.pdf
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Reading on Android devices: – Play a description of the items displayed on the screen – Read aloud the selected text – Option to point the camera at images or text to hear a reading or description
| Free | Reading
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