Experiences of scanning pens for dyslexic Year 10 reluctant readers?

[Allaboutstu]

We are looking at options to help DS, who has dyslexia, with reading as he moves into yr 10.

His reading age varies in assessments but averages around half his age, so we are looking at other options of accessing information. He doesnt like screen readers on his phone. I’m looking at scanning pens, although very expensive. Does anyone have experience of these that they could share? It looks like they’d be good in enabling him to access words/complex texts he couldn’t otherwise. However I’m wondering if the money would be better spent on getting more accessible learning materials. DS has always been a low academic achiever despite ehcp/support/reader and scribe in tests etc. I’m wondering if a scanning pen would even be effective if whats been scanned is whole passages of info rather than the few unreadable words, although I’m guessing it might be good for maths, where there are fewer words and we want to remove that barrier for DS .

Does anyone have experiences re reluctant readers and dyslexia with scanning pens?

A reading pen can be funded via the EHCP if necessary.

We tried a C-Pen. It worked as it should, but DS preferred text to speech software on his laptop/iPad to the pen so didn’t continue with it.

If DS doesn’t get on with a computer reader or a reading pen, you could pursue provision in the EHCP to enable DS to have a reader in lessons.