Identifying and being trained in the appropriate technology can affect the lives of people with LD in daily living, whether it s in the classroom, at work, in the home, or in other social settings.
Technology provides, in other words, valuable tools for life.
The simplicity and ready availability of low-tech devices should not be overlooked. Inexpensive color highlighters, for example, can help individuals with reading difficulties distinguish words that appear the same like proud, pound, and pond. Providers help the student highlight the troublesome words in different colors and make the reader visually aware of the differences between these words. High-tech devices, such as an optical character recognition system, provide a means of entering text or printed material directly into a computer by use of a scanner. Once the text has been scanned into the computer, it can be read back to the user by means of a speech synthesizer.