However, these students are less likely to become frustrated, discouraged and, at some point, disengaged from their academic experiences if they receive timely assistance through technology. OutLoud is a tool that supports and empowers students with mild disabilities in a number of important ways. Program can be customized to read students' words, sentences, or paragraphs as they are written. Students can hear inaccuracies or omissions in their writing. A visual as well as an auditory prompt alert students that they have misspelled a word.
Students are able to hear as little or as much of the text read at any given time.
If the imported text is an assignment or test, students can type their answers directly into a document, utilizing the program's writing supports. Providing students with an unedited document containing common errors can heighten grammatical awareness. Finally, students utilize the program's editing features to correct the document.