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Teacher gets creative with technology grant from Qwest – High-tech pens will read to disabled students, allowing them to use regular textbooks.
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Jennifer Heaney isn’t above trying magic if it can help severely disabled students read better.
Heaney, a special-education team leader at Sandy’s Eastmont Middle School, has received a $1,674 grant from the Qwest Foundation http://www.qwest.com/about/company/community/foundation.html to order five optical scanners that translate the written word into spoken sentences.
The devices, known as Readingpens, are manufactured by WizCom Technologies http://www.wizcomtech.com in Westford Mass. Heaney says they should help disabled students with reading impairments understand science and social study textbooks.
By Paul Beebe
The Salt Lake Tribune
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