ATIA Pick of the Day

Teachers of learners with significant special needs often times need to adapt text to be more cognitively and linguistically accessible. Here are some tools that can help.

Up Goer Five
Up Goer Five is a text editor that helps you simplify the vocabulary in text by limiting you to the top 1,000 words.  You can cut and paste text from the Internet, such as from a magazine articles, you can enter samples of your speech to see if you are using core vocabulary in your teaching.

Check out Up Goer Six and Text Compactor as well.