In order to meet one of the tutorial requests of our teachers, and to meet the special needs of the students that I serve, I began to look more closely at various options for orally administering assignments and assessments when using Google Chrome. During our initial overview, we were introduced to ChromeVox. After using it with various Google Docs, Forms, PDFs, and websites with my own students, I noticed that there were several instances when it would not read aloud the text or would only read portions of the text. During our training overview, the extension Read&Write was also mentioned. After searching and reading several blogs from special education teachers and assistive technology teams, I found that Read&Write is highly thought of and has had success in special education settings. After downloading it and using it with the same Google Docs, Forms, PDFs, and websites that were used when testing ChromeVox, it was found to work with more consistency. After using it with one of my small groups of students, they also indicated that they preferred the voice used in Read&Write over that of ChromeVox.
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