Disability Service Resources

Disability Resources

Text/Speech Software

• Natural Reader (www.naturalreaders.com)
  • Text-to-speech
  • Free to download
  • User friendly

• eReader (www.ereader.com)
  • Text-to-Speech
  • Free to download

• PDF Equalizer (http://www.readingmadeez.com/products/PDFEqualizer.html)
  • Text-to-Speech
  • Allows reading of PDF documents
  • Cost: $99.95

• Dragon Speak (www.nuance.com)
  • Speech-to-Text & Text-to-Speech
  • Very easy and fast
  • Program “learns” your speech patterns; grows more effective with persistent use.
  • Cost: $99.99

E-Textbooks

• Learning Ally (www.learningally.org) 
  • Audiobook website (Audiobooks only)
  • Provide reading software for audiobooks
  • User friendly

• eBooks (www.ebooks.com)
  • Easy to use search engine
  • Has textbooks and novels
  • Buying option e-texts (Not free)

• Project Gutenberg (www.gutenberg.org)
  • Free books online, only books with expired copyrights
  • No textbooks

• Book Share (www.bookshare.org)
  • Free membership
  • World’s largest online library of accessible reading materials for people with print disabilities
  • Books, textbooks, newspapers, and magazines

• Online Math Books (www.people.math.gatech.edu/~cain/textbooks/onlinebooks.html)
  • Free mathematics textbooks from the Georgia Tech School of Mathematics
  • Limited selection, with no search engine

• Note: Check out amazon.com and the textbook publishers to see if e-texts are available.

Assistive Technologies

• Tech Matrix (www.techmatrix.org)
  • Website is user friendly
  • 300 products

• Able Data (www.abledata.com)
  • Objective information about assistive technology products and services, including distributors of technology products by state, and links to literature and publications on assistive technology.
  • (MT:http://www.abledata.com/abledata.cfm?pageid=160165&ksectionid=19326&stateid=32459&state=Montana)

• The Family Center on Technology and Disability (www.fctd.info)
  • Provides information on transitioning disability students from high school to college in regard to assistive technology.

Vocational Rehab Services

• Department of Health & Human Services (www.dphhs.mt.gov/detd/vocrehab/index.shtml)
  • Provides services ranging from evaluation to career assistance to veteran services.
  • Government service.

• Montana Youth Transitions (montanayouthtransitions.org)
  • Career assistance, blind/deaf services, etc.

• Fort Harrison: Veteran Services (www2.va.gov/directory/guide/facility.asp?id=321)