Assistive Technology

Assistive Technology is defined as any item, piece of equipment or system that helps people bypass, work around, or compensate for learning difficulties. We are dedicated to keeping a pulse on emerging technologies that will help promote the success of our students. Some of the assistive technology used at NHS includes:

• Reading Support and Remediation –
  • Kurzweil 3000 software – text to speech & scanning
  • Lexia Reading Software
  • ClipRead by Live Ink – parses text into manageable chunks
  • Earobics software – develops phonemic awareness
• Writing Support –
  • Kurzweil 3000 software – word prediction & text to speech
  • Ginger SoftwardDragon Naturally Speaking – voice recognition
  • Microsoft PowerPoint – multimedia slide show presentations
  • Thinking Maps – cognitive mapping
  • WordQ - word prediction software 
• Study Skills –
  • Kurzweil 3000 software – highlight and extract text or notes, text to speech
  • Thinking Maps software – cognitive mapping
  • Inspiration software – cognitive mapping / outlining
• Test Taking –
  • Kurzweil 3000 software – scan & read tests using text to speech, fill in the blanks and/or type responses directly into test