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Solutions for Universal Design for Learning

Supporting the UDL framework with technology for every student.

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Universal design for learning is defined by CAST as, “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.” The UDL approach to teaching minimizes barriers and maximizes outcomes for all learners. It begins with the foundational understanding that every learner is highly variable. In any classroom or learning environment, you can expect that there will be a wide range of interests, background experiences, and skills.

Texthelp tools are designed with UDL at their core. The tools allow learners choice in the way they access and engage with educational content as well as variations in how they demonstrate mastery and understanding.

When we talk about engagement in education, we are focused on providing learners with multiple ways to access and interact with content. This could include using pictures, audio, video, or text; providing multiple levels of difficulty; or offering different tasks that appeal to different learning needs.

Texthelp tools provide learners with an array of methods to find relevance in their learning and allow them to persist when learning is challenging.

With over 20 tools to choose from, Read&Write allows you to create a richer and more engaging learner experience for everyone in the classroom. It provides many opportunities to remove barriers and make learning more accessible. Tools such as picture dictionaries, audio maker, and text-to-speech, Read&Write helps to make learning more equitable for every learner.

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OrbitNote helps to make inaccessible content more accessible for all learners. 
OrbitNote transforms inaccessible PDF documents into dynamic and collaborative workspaces that work for every workstyle.

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Equatio helps to make math and science more accessible and engaging for every learner. It has many tools to help every learner in your class get to grips with new and challenging STEM concepts. Learners can hear math read aloud, they can visualize graphs with our Desmos integration, and they can use Mathspace to experiment with shapes and spaces.

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The Representation principle in the UDL framework makes sure that learners can learn and use information in lots of different ways. This might mean using different ways to show information, like listening, looking, or doing things. It could also mean using pictures or short sentences to help remember important ideas after each lesson.

Texthelp tools provide many ways to present educational content, from imagery, through to hearing content read aloud.

Read&Write is built with UDL in mind. This means that there are many options for learners to use and access information. Tools like text-to-speech and audio maker allow learners to hear written text read aloud. Picture Dictionaries and vocabulary lists mean students can see visual representations of words and topics.

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Using OrbitNote allows for seamless collaboration, for example, teachers could leave a quick voice note for students offering feedback. Students can then access the voice note and make changes to their work. Students could use a range of tools to ask teachers for help, identifying areas that need more support. Pen and paper projects can become digital spaces for working together, allowing collaboration between teachers and students, as well as for group projects and tasks.

Discover how OrbitNote makes PDF's collaborative

OrbitNote

Equatio’s accessibility features help learners to be independent in every STEM subject. It improves their learning experiences by giving them choice in how they learn. This includes having math read aloud, using “math to speech” and taking math beyond pen and paper to visualize concepts digitally. Equatio lets students visualize, digitise and understand math with independence in ways that best suit their needs.

Learn how Equatio makes math more accessible

The Action and Expression principle lets learners show what they know and can do in lots of different ways. They can use different tools to make meaning and show they're really good at something. This could be talking in front of the class, writing stories, making cool projects on the computer, or working together with others.

With Texthelp tools, learners can choose how they demonstrate their mastery of a topic.

Read&Write allows educators to facilitate learners in their choice of action and expression. Among the 20 tools, learners can choose to demonstrate their mastery in audio and written formats, whichever way they feel most comfortable and confident.

Learn how Read&Write helps students to express themselves

OrbitNote allows students to express their understanding in many flexible ways. They can type or draw their thoughts on the page, which can aid planning. Students can highlight the key points in a comprehension piece or to help with studying. Both teachers and students can use their voices to send thoughts and feedback, and finally students can add shapes and images to their work.

Explaining your thinking in maths takes more than one line, and a combination of maths expressions and text. Multiple lines and shapes and freehand drawing in Equatio mathspace helps students demonstrate their understanding. Equatio mathspace integrates with Google Classroom, meaning each student has easy access to their own mathspace to solve. From here they can show their thought processes and knowledge and return to you through the mathspace dashboard.

Explore the ways students can demonstrate knowledge with Equatio

You can see more on how Read&Write and Equatio can help you incorporate the UDL framework on the pages below.

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The Sheffield College

Math Teacher, Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School, Catoosa County Schools District, GA

Teacher and Assistive Technology Consultant for Plymouth-Canton Community Schools

Ontario Certified Teacher

Education Officer, Aberdeen City Council

Software solutions to help support the UDL framework.

Solutions for Universal Design for learning

Our tools are designed with UDL at their core, allowing learners choice in the way they access and engage with educational content.

Making the world of work a more inclusive environment for everyone

Driving workplace inclusion is everyone’s responsibility. From leadership and DE&I teams, to Human Resources and individual employees - we all have a part to play. We can each make an impact. Together we can drive cultural change at work and help to create a safe workplace environment where everyone is comfortable bringing their authentic self to work.

A better working world for everyone who thinks, works and learns differently

Creating a culture of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DE&I) brings out the very best in people – and organisations. But solving the big challenges in DE&I can be a slow process. With Read&Write, companies can take an important step towards creating an inclusive workplace culture while also supporting their ESG strategies and providing return on investment.

Encourage employees to bring their whole selves to work

Everyone thinks, works, learns and behaves in ways that are truly unique. That means each employee brings out-of-the-box thinking, creative solutions and more to the workplace. It also means we should support them to work and achieve in their own way. 

Technology has a vital role to play when it comes to disability inclusion and recruiting and retaining unique talent.

With our tools, you can demonstrate that you are committed to giving all staff the tools they need to bring their best selves to work. By making tools like Read&Write available, organisations demonstrate their commitment to workplace inclusion.

Read&Write offers with everyday reading and writing tasks. The toolbar includes text-to-speech, prediction, and screen masking features. The Read&Write toolbar gives employees the flexibility to choose how they engage with content, complete tasks, and communicate with colleagues.

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ReachDeck helps organisations to make their online content and communications accessible and usable to everyone. Empower employees to produce communications with confidence and quality. Make internal and external content easy to understand by everyone.

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Offer instant and discreet support without requiring employees to self-identify

76% of people with a disability or neurodiverse condition do not fully disclose this at work. Most people don’t want to admit that they need help or extra support. By making your tools available to everyone, responsible business leaders can provide support to your entire workforce, eliminating the need for employees to self-identify.

Discover how Read&Write supports neurodiverse teams

Read&Write offers organisations a host of discreet tools that are great for neurodiverse employees. An enterprise licence allows organisations to make Read&Write available for every employee. Read&Write supports staff with literacy challenges, helps with information processing, improves focus and concentration and reduces stress.

Demonstrate that your organisation supports inclusion in a tangible way

In an inclusive organisation, there’s diversity at every level. Many cultures, traditions, beliefs, languages, and lifestyles are prevalent and are respected without judgement.

From day one, every employee should feel welcomed, valued, and included at work. 

With tools like Read&Write and ReachDeck your organisation can promote an inclusive culture by actively promoting and celebrating different work styles. With reading and writing tools to support every employee, at every level of the business, it’s a great step on your journey to an inclusive workplace culture.

Read&Write helps you to create an inclusive workplace, while demonstrating that you care and you're prepared to make a long-term investment in them. Read&Write offers a simple change with instant impact for DEI. Our technology helps organisations create more inclusive environments where everyone is engaged and empowered and where everyone truly feels like they have a voice.

ReachDeck is an all-in-one digital inclusion solution. It helps your organisation make  online content accessible and usable to everyone. ReachDeck helps to demonstrate your comitment to inclusion by improving the accessibility, readability and reach of your online content and helps to empower your whole team to communicate with confidence.

Learn about ReachDeck's accessibility tools

Enhance employee output, performance and engagement

Supporting employees with the right tools they need to do their job can improve their experience at work. It can also boost their productivity and quality of work and help them to express their thoughts. This leads to diversity of thought, more effective problem solving and better decision making. All of these things go a long way to increasing operational and performance effectiveness.

Read&Write helps to simplify daily tasks and improve the quality and speed of internal and external communications. It empowers individuals to excel and work more efficiently.

Learn how Read&Write helps with engagement

ReachDeck helps your organisation ensure internal and external content is shared in an accessible and engaging way. It helps to prioritise the actions you need to take to make improvements to your website, as well as empowering employees to produce communications with confidence and quality.

Discover how ReachDeck ehances performance

Are you ready to find out more about how our tools can help you your workplace become more inclusive of every employee?

Assistive Technologies Service Owner, EY

Equality Manager, Belfast Health & Social Care Trust

Solutions for inclusive workplaces

We’re leading the way in showing workplaces how to harness the power of inclusive technology, allowing every person to feel equipped to understand and communicate in a way that suits them best.

Welcoming and supporting every student in our classrooms

In its most simple form, inclusive education means accepting, understanding and catering for students’ differences and diversity, whether that’s physical, cognitive, academic, social, or emotional. The goal of inclusive education is that students spending time outside the regular classroom environment is an exception rather than the norm.

In well established inclusive education environments, students feel welcomed and comfortable in classrooms and are supported throughout their education.

What does inclusion in education look like?

The role of technology in inclusive education

Everyone thinks and learns differently. That’s at the very heart of inclusive education. When we know where each student’s strengths lie, and how they like to learn best, we can start to provide tools, and technology to support their style of learning.

Texthelp tools are designed to support every learner in your classroom. Each tool has a range of supports to compliment learning in the classroom and at home. Helping you to create an inclusive learning environment. 

Students in special education groups often form a significant part of our varied and diverse classrooms.  It’s important that we provide each student with special educational needs with the tools they need to access the curriculum every day. Helping them to learn, engage with resources and their peers, and demonstrate their mastery in a topic area.

Read&Write is particularly useful for supporting students with special educational needs. Specific accessibility tools alongside the reading and writing tools, help to create a level playing field for everyone.

Learn about how Read&Write supports special ed students

Equatio gives special education students many ways to engage and show their understanding in math. They can choose to type, handwrite or dictate their maths problems and answers, as well as hearing math read aloud when coupled with Read&Write.

Discover Equatio's features for special ed students

Students in Special Education can use OrbitNote to make inaccessible PDFs and documents readable and editable.

Fluency Tutor helps students to build oral fluency and confidence to read aloud. Detailed analytics also mean that it’s easy to see where an intervention might be beneficial.

Explore how Fluency Tutor's reading supports

Fluency Tutor

Every student learns and understands information in a different way, that’s what makes our classrooms, so brilliant and diverse. Since a one-size-fits-all approach doesn’t work in today’s varied classroom environment, it’s important to provide instruction, lessons, and additional resources in multiple formats. 

Our tools can help provide options for students in how they engage with content, and demonstrate their understanding.

Read&Write provides students with access to a suite of over twenty different reading support tools, where and when they need it. Giving them choice in how they access and engage with content and helping to improve their reading and comprehension skills.

OrbitNote allows students to express their understanding in many flexible ways. They can type or draw their thoughts on the page, which can aid planning. Both teachers and students can use their voices to send thoughts and feedback, and finally students can add shapes and images to their work.

Discover how OrbitNote brings PDFs to life

Equatio improves learning experiences in math and science by giving students choice in the tools that they need to succeed. This includes having math read aloud, using “math-to-speech” and visualizing math and science concepts digitally.

Discover how Equatio supports inclusive education

Making the math class inclusive and engaging

To make math lessons inclusive, we need to anticipate what barriers to taking part and learning particular activities, lessons may pose for students in our class. In planning we need to consider the accessibility of our lessons and ways of minimising or reducing those barriers so that all students can fully take part and learn. We want all of our learners to foster independent learning techniques.

Discover how Equatio helps special ed students

From learners in Special Education  to ELL students, Equatio’s accessibility features help students to be more independent in STEM subjects. It lets students visualize, digitize and understand math with independence and in ways that best suit their needs.

Are you ready to find out more about how our tools support inclusive education?

Director of Technology Innovation, Bartholomew Consolidated School Corporation

District Program Facilitator, Minneapolis Public Schools

Assistive Technology Facilitator and Tech Instructional Coach, Council Bluffs Community School District

Easy-to-use software solutions to support inclusive education.

Texthelp's software solutions to support inclusive education

Solutions for Inclusive Education

Tools designed to support every learner in your classroom. Each tool has a range of supports to compliment learning in the classroom and at home.

Helping everyone with dyslexia understand and be understood, from education through to the world of work.

Dyslexia is one of the most common learning challenges affecting both children and adults. While no two individuals struggle with the same set of challenges. Most people with dyslexia have to work harder than their peers to develop their literacy skills. 

Defined by the International Dyslexia Association, "“Dyslexia is a specific learning disability that is neurobiological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities."

Lifelong support for people with dyslexia

Although signs of dyslexia may be picked up in early childhood, often diagnosis doesn’t come until later in education, and can even go undiagnosed into adulthood and the workplace. It’s important to understand that dyslexia doesn’t end when a child’s education ends. So whatever support a child or young person receives during their education needs to be carried through into adult life and the workplace.

Texthelp tools are designed to support children in education, understand and work alongside their peers. The same tools provide adults with dyslexia in the workplace with the flexibility to choose how they engage with content, complete tasks, and communicate with their colleagues.

No two students with dyslexia experience the same challenges in the classroom. That’s why it’s important to offer choice in tools and resources made available. This gives students the autonomy to choose the tools that best help them to learn, engage with resources and their peers, and demonstrate their mastery in a topic area.

Read&Write offers over 20 different reading and writing tools including text-to-speech, speech input, and word prediction. Allowing students with dyslexia to choose how they access and engage with classroom content.

Discover how Read&Write supports students with dyslexia

OrbitNote makes inaccessible PDFs and documents readable and editable. Ensuring that students have access to the tools they need, such as text to speech, highlighting, vocabulary support and everything they need to succeed - across all class content.

Equatio improves learning experiences in math and science by giving students with dyslexia the choice in the tools that they need to understand and demonstrate their knowledge. This includes having math read aloud, using “math-to-speech” and visualizing math and science concepts digitally.

Helping employees with dyslexia excel in the workplace

Adults with dyslexia in the workplace think, work, learn and behave in ways that are truly unique. That means they bring out-of-the-box thinking, creative solutions and more to the workplace. It also means we should support them to work and achieve in their own way.

Read&Write for Work offers over 20 tools that support the 10% of your workforce with dyslexia to engage with content, complete tasks, and communicate with their colleagues. It powers company DEI programs, making it easier to attract from a wider talent pool and retain diverse talent.

Discover how Read&Write supports staff with dyslexia

Read&Write is an inclusion tool that supports staff with dyslexia, who might find everyday literacy tasks a challenge. It’s a powerful set of reading and writing tools that help empower all employees to think, learn and work to their full potential. Read&Write helps anyone who struggles with digital text to excel in their work.

Are you ready to find out more about how our tools can help young people and adults with dyslexia?

Accessibility manager (Enterprise Wide Technology Group) KPMG

Learner and writer with dyslexia

Dyslexic & Dyspraxic, Midweight Motion Designer

Texthelp's discreet software solutions help everyone with dyslexia understand and be understood, from education through to the world of work.

Texthelp's solutions for people with dyslexia

Solutions for people with dyslexia

Tools that support children in education, understand and work alongside their peers, and adults with dyslexia in the workplace.

Help staff with neurodiverse conditions engage with digital text and excel in their job role.

Neurodiversity is the term used to describe natural variations in the human brain. It relates to differences in the way we think, process, learn and behave. 

Neurodiversity is most often associated with dyslexia, dyspraxia, ADD, Autism, and Autism Spectrum Conditions. It also includes any condition that affects some, but not all, thinking skills.

The power of neurodivergent thinking in the workplace

As employers, we want to welcome a range of diverse thinking to strengthen our teams. We need to understand the various experiences that come with being neurodivergent, and the advantages of having people with neurodiverse profiles on our teams. 

Neurodiverse employees can bring a whole new perspective to your business. The neurodiverse workforce can excel in a variety of areas. People with Autism can be a great fit for tech and cybersecurity and people with ADHD can thrive in creative roles.

Texthelp tools give employees the flexibility to choose how they engage with content, complete tasks, and communicate with colleagues.

Providing discrete support where it’s needed

Being made to feel different causes anxiety and can have a negative impact on performance. 76% of people with a disability or neurodiverse condition do not fully disclose this at work.

43% of employees with disabilities or conditions do not feel comfortable to approach their employer to ask for change. Most people don’t want to declare that they need help or extra support. By making Read&Write available to everyone, responsible business leaders can provide support to their entire workforce, eliminating the need for employees to self-identify.

Learn more about Read&Write's discreet tools

Read&Write’s discreet toolbar provides tools to support many different workstyles, so everyone can work how they work best - from the auditory processors to the visual thinkers, and beyond. An enterprise licence means that your organisation can provide Read&Write to every employee, whether they’ve disclosed the need for an adjustment or not.

Supporting employees with the right tools they need to do their job can improve their experience at work. It can also boost their productivity and quality of work and help them to express their thoughts. 

It's important for all employees, regardless of difference, disability or language, to feel supported and encouraged to work in their own preferred way. Read&Write gives employees multiple means of consuming and producing large amounts of information. It empowers individuals to excel and work more efficiently.

Explore how Read&Write supports engagement

Read&Write is an inclusion tool that supports neurodivergent employees, and anyone who might find everyday literacy tasks a challenge. The powerful set of reading and writing tools help anyone who struggles with digital text to excel in their work.

Encourage employees to bring their whole self to work

Globally, up to 1 in 5 people are neurodivergent. 10% are dyslexic, 6% are dyspraxic, 4% have ADHD, and 1-2% are autistic.

These individuals think, work, learn and behave in ways that are truly unique. That means they bring out-of-the-box thinking, creative solutions and more to the workplace. It also means we should support them to work and achieve in their own way. The Read&Write toolbar gives employees the flexibility to choose how they engage with content, complete tasks, and communicate with colleagues.

Discover Read&Write's organization-wide support

Read&Write helps you to create an inclusive workplace, while demonstrating that you care and you're prepared to make a long-term investment in employees. 

Read&Write offers a simple change with instant impact for DEI. Our technology helps organizations create more inclusive environments where everyone is engaged and empowered.

Despite many strengths, neurodivergent people may still face challenges in entering the workforce. There are many more ways you can support staff with neurodiversities, and make the workplace a welcoming environment where everyone can bring their authentic self to work. 

You can read more about supporting colleagues with neurodiversities on our dedicated page.

Are you ready to find out more about how our tools can help you and your neurodiverse workforce?

Biomedical Scientist with a neurodiverse condition called Marfan's Phenotype

UK Civil Service Governance Manager with dyslexia

Midweight Motion Designer with dyslexia and dyspraxia

Texthelp solutions to support staff with neurodiverse coditions

Solutions for Neurodiverse Employees

Our tools give employees the flexibility to choose how they engage with content, complete tasks, and communicate with colleagues.

Help students in special education learn and express themselves like never before

For too long, students in special education have come up against many barriers to learning. These barriers can include not being able to access text, in the same way their peers do, as well as not being able to demonstrate their mastery of a topic in a traditional way.  

With Texthelp tools, students in special education can access and engage with lessons, with confidence, alongside their peers.

Give students in special education equal access to the curriculum

What support is available for special ed students?

Learners with additional needs are protected under the Individuals with Disabilities Act. This is a law that makes free appropriate education available to children with disabilities. Students in Special Ed might also be eligible for an Individualized Education Plan (IEP) or a Education 504 plan.

The Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) is a law that makes available a free appropriate public education to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation and ensures special education and related services to those children.

Students with additional needs might be eligible for an Individualized Education Plan, or IEP. An IEP is offered, free of charge, to students in public schools and outlines the goals and any support services that may be needed for a student to succeed in mainstream education. You can learn more about IEPs and who is eligible on our dedicated page.

A 504 education plan comes from Section 504 of the U.S. Rehabilitation Act of 1973. It’s designed to help parents of students with physical or mental impairments work with educators to design customized educational plans to support a student with a disability and remove barriers to learning. The goal is to give the student equal access at school. You can learn more about 504 Education Plans and how they differ from IEPs on our dedicated page.

Texthelp tools, designed with the principles of Universal Design for Learning in mind, give educators and students a range of supports to compliment learning in the classroom and at home. 

Helping students to become more confident and independent learners. 

Reading can often be a point of frustration and pain for our students in special education. Whether that’s reading aloud or reading for comprehension. With our tools, students in special education can read with confidence. Whether that’s practizing to read aloud comfortably, or having on-screen text read aloud to them to increase comprehension. Even inaccessible text in images can be transformed into more accessible content for all students.

Help students with learning disabilities, literacy challenges and those students who have IEPs. Read&Write allows them to read, understand and engage with the content of every lesson alongside their peers.

Learn more about Read&Write's reading tools

Educators can easily convert printed text into a PDF with our one-click OCR scanning technology. OrbitNote then takes care of everything else, ensuring that students have access to the tools they need to understand and engage with written text - across all class content.

Motivate students to get their thoughts down on paper

For students in our special education cohorts, it can be difficult to translate thoughts in their head into words on a page. Transform the writing experience for students who would traditionally have struggled. With tools like prediction, Talk n Type, and Voice notes students can start to express themselves like never before.

Read&Write gives Special Education students a range of tools to help them get their thoughts down. Useful features help students to write more independently and with greater confidence.

WriQ puts students right at the centre of their own writing journey, using nudge theory to spur them on to do a little better than the day before. WriQ data also helps educators see where an intervention might be required.

WriQ

Deepen understanding and increase engagement in math

Math can be a tricky subject to grasp, as well as demonstrate mastery. Technology is the key to getting students engaged in the math classroom. Making math digital with our tools allows students to grasp new concepts in ways that they can easily understand. It also allows students to respond to math problems and worksheets using various tools.

Equatio gives students choice in how they express their understanding of maths concepts. They can choose to type, handwrite or dictate their math problems and answers.

Level the playing field in formative assessments

Equipping students with accommodations at testing time is the only way to make sure that we’re giving them a level playing field to ‘Show what they know’.  Whether we’re talking about exit tickets and class tests, or high stakes testing, our tools can be enabled in testing environments to allow students in special education to show their knowledge and reasoning.

Equatio offers a digital alternative to formative testing, such as pop quizzes and exit tickets. Equatio provides students with disabilities or learning differences with a range of assessment methods. Students with learning difficulties or visual impairments can hear their math read aloud to them.

Consistently assess writing across students and grades using rubrics.  Automatically score writing indicators such as spelling, punctuation, and grammar, vocabulary maturity and time on task. WriQ data also helps educators to see where an intervention might be required.

Fluency Tutor helps educators to measure and track oral reading fluency. Detailed analytics mean that it’s easy to track students’ reading progress and see where an intervention might be beneficial.

Learn about formative assessment with Fluency Tutor

Are you ready to find out more about how our tools can help you and your special education students?

Assistive Technology Facilitator and Tech Instructional Coach for special education and general education

Math Teacher, Lakeview-Fort Oglethorpe High School, Catoosa County Schools

Director of Educational Reform, Compliance and Technology, West Warwick Public Schools

Easy-to-use software solutions to help students in special education learn and express themselves like never before

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