An early blog post to make up for the late one last week! Here are details of a really useful webinar this week on Wednesday , 3rd February from RNIB Bookshare and Dolphin. RNIB Bookshare ensure that more people can read books in accessible formats. This includes helping dyslexic individuals who find it difficult accessing learning material. Read on to find out more ….

Textbooks that talk! Free app & online library for SEND students of ALL ages (03/02/22) 3.00 – 3.30pm

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If you work in a UK school, college or university and support students with visual impairments or neurodiverse conditions, Dolphin and the RNIB invite you to join this free webinar.
We’ll demonstrate how the EasyReader App and RNIB Bookshare Education Collection can help your students read textbooks in accessible formats. Join Rochelle Davis-Pretsell from RNIB Bookshare and Steve Bennett from Dolphin Computer Access for an introduction to accessible versions of learning material, and a demonstration of the Dolphin EasyReader app. Accessible versions of UK school, college and university textbooks – along with other learning materials – are available free in the RNIB Bookshare Education Collection. EasyReader is a free app that makes it easy for students to find, download and read accessible books on any device, then customise the reading experience to suit their own vision and learning style. This webinar helps you support learners of all ages, to make reading accessible for students with visual impairments and neurodiverse conditions including dyslexia. In this short webinar, you’ll learn
– Which students can use RNIB Bookshare
– The range of accessible textbooks available
– Where and how to get the free EasyReader App
– How EasyReader supports students with dyslexia
– How EasyReader supports learners with visual impairmentsThis webinar is recommended for all teaching staff in UK primary, secondary and higher education, including:
– Teachers
– QTVIs
– Lecturers
– Teaching Assistantsand for support teams including:
– SENCo’s
– Disability Support
– Dyslexia Support
– Disability Advisory Service teams

Go to: https://yourdolphin.com/en-gb/webinars/82349266873 to register.

Spelling hints

Several words end with the letters ‘-se’ with the ‘e’ not seeming to have a purpose in the word. Words with single ‘s’ at the end are usually plurals with the ‘s’ being the suffix to make it plural. Therefore, if the word ‘mouse’ was spelt as mous, then it might be assumed that we were talking about the plural of a word ‘mou’. To avoid this confusion and to spell the word correctly, learners need to remember to place the ‘e’ on the end of words such as house, mouse, horse, course, verse, else etc.

The ‘e’ is also added onto words so they don’t end with a ‘v’ e.g. have, shelve, carve etc. I like the Nessy video which gives a humorous explanation why the ‘v’ cannot end the word.

Speak to you next week… PJ 🙂

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