assistive technology for primary school children who are struggling with progress in reading and writing??

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Does anyone have any experience of assistive technology for primary school children who are struggling with progress in reading and writing?

My son is severely dyspraxic and his literacy progress is very slow. He is bored and frustrated with using his PSA as a scribe and being read to. He needs more independence.

Does anyone have experience of this and can offer ideas to help find ...

some sort of dictation device to assist in independent writing?
Device to facilitate indépendant choosing books, turning pages but being read to?
Typing apps?
A device that isn't too expensive or fragile, as it will be constantly forgotten and dropped.

Simple and child focused, to allow quick learning and independence?

Any ideas?

We use the snaptype app (www.snaptypeapp.com/) when worksheet type homework comes home with DD2 who is dyspraxic (she's great with phonics and reading... writing is way way way behind but she produces much better work when allowed to type - her motor skills aren't dreadful, it's the spatial awareness of putting letters together with spaces in words and not writing off the paper and down the leg of the table that are her kind of difficulties) where you can just photograph the worksheet and then tap and type wherever you want on it or be highly mature like I was testing it out and write "poo poo head" all over a photo of the electric bill The iPad app is much better featured and supported than the Android version but we just use DD2's Amazon fire for kids tablet with a cheapo £8 bluetooth keyboard I've scrawled the lower case alphabet on with a sharpie to do it (I've jailbroken the tablet to get the Google Play store on).

You can get Windows 10 to do basic inbuilt voice typing www.digitaltrends.com/computing/how-to-set-up-speech-to-text-in-windows-10/ but this wasn't really a way forward with DD2 as her speech is quite badly affected by her dyspraxia.

Some versions of OneNote also include the immersive reader bit which will read aloud any text on the screen - not all do though (2016 doesn't, but the Office 365 version does, Android doesn't ...from among the pile of versions we have installed on various devices here).

Edited to add - I find SnapType is fantastic - but requires having some infrastructure in place to enable it to be used which is why I can't get school on board with it at present - at home I save finished worksheets to my Google Drive and then open them to print them off on my PC. I have had a total chuffing nightmare getting the export option to work on some of my devices (Samsung tablets mainly) before I got it working on the Fire tablets though but it's the best thing I found to help DD2. Like I say though - speech to text doesn't really work for a child with speech problems, you might have better luck on that regard.

Very bad blurry photo but this is dd2 (y1) work tonight - crumpled mess is the original sheet and the other is it photographed and with the combo of snaptype, fire tablet and cheap as hell Bluetooth keyboard to type her response instead of writing it. All I've done is sort out the printing and helped her find the letters on the keyword as we're still learning!

Thank you so much reverse the ferret! I'll be looking into that