The Google Extensions for your special education classroom

Currently, I work with students with special needs. Most of my students connote talk and some have a reading level as low as kindergarten. During his blog post, Eric Curtis talked about 30 extensions which are about text to speech, readability, reading compression, focus, and navigation. For text to speech extensions, he talks about read and write, read aloud, voice instead, and announcify. What I like about the read aloud function is for the fact it will read to someone either by highlighting or read the whole passage. For some of my kids, they would need to have the whole passage read to them for the fact their reading level is not high, and some do not know how to read. One of the reasons I do not like the voice instead is you have to highlight the passage. Some of my students do not know how to do this. The Announcify would help my students to not get distracted because there are times where they will hit random advertisements. For speech to text extensions, Eric only has one listed. VoiceIN Voice typing is basically you record what you want to be typed out. For the students who do not know how to spell, this could be a useful tool. They could be able to type out an answer to a question or be able to respond to a worksheet. Readability functions include mercury reader, OpenDyslexic, MagicScroll Web Reader, and many more. The good thing about Magicscroll is for the fact of it makes the webpage look like they are reading a book. Some of my students would love this. Reading Comprehension extensions involve SMMRY, TLDR: Summarize Anything, and Auto Highlight. Some focus extensions include uBlock Origin, Move It, and many more. Move it is great for the students who need a break from work. Almost all of my students do need a break from work at times. For more information about the extensions, visit the like to Eric Curtis blog: https://www.controlaltachieve.com/2016/10/special-needs-extensions.html