dyslexia - computer programs, apps or other suggestions to help year 9

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Hi,

Im posting here to see what computer software your secondary students have found helpful.

DS just starting year 9, so just want to be up to date with what is being used currently.

thanks

OneNote in Office has an immersive reader www.onenote.com/learningtools where you can do things like change the text background, spacing, get it to read outloud to you and the like. There are like a bajillion versions of OneNote around though and it's only certain ones that can do it (the online version I think does if you want to play around with it) or the version that's NOT 2016 (you can install it on 2016 but it's annoyingly flakey to get working - even I gave up and I'm fairly techie).

Pair it with Office Lens on your smartphone and you can take a photo of something, automatically import it into OneNote and have it read back to you with a fair degree of accuracy.

(I love the OfficeLens/OneNote combo generally - I photograph and file in there all the letters, reports and stuff for DD2, and all those random bits of paper or notices stuck to classroom doors to deal with later - it shoves them all in as quick notes by default and I just go through, name them and store them sensibly once a week)

thank you!