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Text-to-speech provides bimodal presentation of both visual and aural text. Seeing and hearing the text at the same time allows students to focus on comprehension instead of sounding out words, as well as improving word recognition.

Students with dyslexia respond well to alternative book formats and specialized reading instruction. Make a point to find more information this month about dyslexia and other learning disabilities that result in print disabilities.

Banned Books Week is here. Can students who struggle to read be part of the conversation? Have they read the authors whose works are banned or challenged? If not, AIM-VA is your answer.

Books in alternative formats help students with print disabilities get engaged with books and become literate.

Putting accessible learning materials into the hands of struggling readers is definitely easier.

A richer reading experience is in store for eligible students with disabilities whose teachers request accessible formats.

Students can read Dahl's celebrated books when they are converted from print thanks to AIM-VA and its counterparts nationwide.

Hour-long webinars from AIM-VA are a rich source of information about accessible teaching and learning.

When curriculum, instruction and accessibility teams align, teaching and learning improve. Problem is that accessibility teams are few.

Teens who write a letter to the next president could raise dyslexia awareness as a new administration comes to Washington, D.C.