Assistive Technology

The Carleton Assistive Technology program brings together academic and technical resources particularly in support of students with physical or learning disabilities. The program is run as a joint venture between ITS and Accessibility Resources. Specially-trained students, known as Assistive Techs, are available to help any students, faculty, or staff who are interested.

Getting Started

One of the most popular Assistive Technology services is text-to-speech, which can be used to read assignments and papers aloud. Carleton provides a program called Read&Write for this purpose. You can get more details by visiting the Read&Write page of the Accessibility Resources website.

Read&Write also offers speech-to-text capabilities to transcribe spoken words, which in turn can be helpful for completing written assignments. (In the past, this feature was offered through the Dragon NaturallySpeaking software, and a few of our community have long-term licenses for this tool that are still in use).

Smart Pens allow you to take notes, while simultaneously recording a lecture or presentation; the written notes are then synced to the audio recording. Details on this technology are found on the Smart Pens page of the Accessibility Resources website.

More Info

More information about accessibility issues and technological solutions can be found on the Assistive Tech page of the Accessibility Resources website.