Assistive Technology for Writing
​Composition & Motor

Assistive Technology for Writing (motor)

Handwriting

Alternate ways to demonstrate knowledge:

• Fill in the blank 
• Circle the answer 
• Multiple choice
• Draw a line to the answer
• Point to the answer

Provide a visual model of upper and lower case letters

Paper

• lined paper
• highlighted paper
• graph paper
• textured lines on paper
  • perforated
  • wiki styx
  • glue
  • fold

Boogie Board

Tablet with a touch screen and stylus

Voice Recording

Dictation/Speech-to-Text (STT)

• Siri FREE

• Dragon iOS & Google App FREE

• Google Voice FREE

• Built in Speech-To-Text/Mac FREE

• Built in Speech-To-Text/PC FREE

Word Prediction

• Co-writer (iOS App $14.99 or Don Johnson SOLO)

• Texting (Built in most smartphone texting Apps FREE)

Keyboarding

Alternative Keyboards:

• Intellikeys

• Alternate keyboards (large keys, alpha, low-vision, one-handed)

• On-Screen keyboards

• Easy Keys

• SuperKeys ($12.99 APP iOS)

• Shift Keys ($.99 APP iOS)(Google Play APP)

• Swipe Type ($.99 APP iOS) (Google Play APP FREE)

Keyboard Modifications:

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Word prediction

• Co-writer ($14.99 App or SOLO)

typing

Typing with auditory feedback (letter, word or sentence)

• Co-writer ($14.99 App or SOLO)
• Classroom Suite 4

Typing Programs

• Typing of the Dead

note taking

• Notability ($5.99 iOS)

• PaperPort Notes (Free iOS)

• Paper (FREE iOS) Video

• ThingLink (Basic FREE/Win/Mac) Video

• Digital Pen Example: LiveScribe

Peer Note Taking 

• Peer takes notes in google docs (or whole class takes group notes)
• Peer takes notes with carbon paper and give second copy to other peer
• Peer's notes are photocopied

Assistive Technology for Writing (Composition)