<html><head><base href="x-msg://14/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi, Carol!</div><div><br></div><div>I'm more familiar with the iPad than with Android tablets like the Nook or the new Kindle Fire, so...</div><div><br></div>Your best bets for the iPad are probably the Learning Ally Audio app (which you mentioned) for listening to narrated audiobooks:<div><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learning-ally-audio/id418888450?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/learning-ally-audio/id418888450?mt=8</a></div><div>...and the Read2Go app from Bookshare for e-text (mainly because of the tie-in to Bookshare):<div><a href="http://read2go.org/">http://read2go.org/</a></div><div><a href="http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/read2go/id425585903?mt=8">http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/read2go/id425585903?mt=8</a></div><div>You can download e-text textbooks from Bookshare as well, including NIMAC textbooks for the K-12 set who have IEPs.</div><div><br></div><div>Apple's free iBooks app can use the iPad's built-in VoiceOver function:</div><div><a href="http://www.apple.com/accessibility/ipad/vision.html">http://www.apple.com/accessibility/ipad/vision.html</a></div><div>VoiceOver works with text in other apps, too, but will not read aloud books in the Kindle app, and the Kindle app does not currently have text-to-speech. Also, VoiceOver does not visually highlight words or sentences while reading.</div><div><br></div><div>Check Chapters 22 and 24 in the iPad iOS5 User Guide for instructions on iBooks and VoiceOver:</div><div><a href="http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf">http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_user_guide.pdf</a></div><div>...or Chapters 19 and 21 in the iOS 4.3 User Guide:</div><div><a href="http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_2_user_guide.pdf">http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/ipad_2_user_guide.pdf</a></div><div>There's also a new "Speak Selection" feature in iOS5 which may work within other apps (see Chapter 24 in the iOS5 manual).</div><div><br></div><div>As for what students prefer, this varies by student and by the task. Some prefer the human voices of DAISY audiobooks from Learning Ally for the intonation, inflection, etc.; other prefer to hear the text while seeing it visually highlighted and prefer apps like Read2Go. Some do fine with the audio-only for novels, but prefer to both see and hear the text when reading for comprehension (e.g., a social studies book). Therefore, I usually have to evaluate this on a student-by-student basis to equip them with the tools which are right for their needs, preferences, and tasks.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps,</div><div> Shelley</div><div><br></div><div><div>
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<br><div><div>On Jan 13, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Carol Brown wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Several LD students who have used text to speech programs in the past have recently received IPads, Nooks or Kindles. Help!! <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">For the IPad, I know there are apps (GoodReader, Speakit! and LearningAlly), but what so your students prefer and why. One student with an IPad said the books were available as e books for the Kindle from Amazon, but they aren’t text book enabled (??). Any help (experiences, contacts, instruction sheets, etc.) would be greatly appreciated. Thanks. <o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Carol Brown<br>Assistive Technology Specialist<br>Student Accessibility Services<br>Rm. 244, Corbett Center<br>MSC 4149<br>New Mexico State University<br>P.O. Box 30001<br>Las Cruces, New Mexico 88003-8001<br> <br>(575) 646-6840 Office<br>(575) 646-5222 Fax<br>(575) 646-1918 TTY<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin-top: 0in; margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>athen-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">athen-list@mailman1.u.washington.edu</a><br><a href="http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; ">http://mailman1.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/athen-list</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></div></body></html>