Powerful assistive features are built into iPad to complement your vision, hearing, motor skills, learning, and literacy.
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Assistive Features
The iPad has many built-in assistive features to support students with their vision, hearing, motor skills, learning, and literacy. Some of these features are:
Colour
Filters
Filters
A range of customisable colour filters to complement different forms of colour blindness or other vision challenges.
FaceTime
High-quality video and a fast frame rate make FaceTime ideal for people who communicate using sign language.
Dictation
Say what you want to write and your iPad converts your words (and numbers and characters) into text.
Guided Access
Helps pupils with autism, attention and sensory challenges stay focused on the task (or app). Parents, teachers can limit iPad to stay on one app by disabling the Home button.
Reaching all Learners with iPad
Our new eBook aims to raise awareness of the many ways in which Apple technologies support the needs of all learners regardless of difficulty or disability. It is intended to be a reference for educators in all institutions.
Lizzies Story
Lizzies Story
Lizzy Bull is 14 years old and a student at The de Ferrers Academy. Lizzy has Glaucoma and Cataracts with a genetic condition called Neurofibromatosis. These conditions have seriously affected Lizzie’s vision. This video looks at the accessibility features of the iPad and how they have helped Lizzie push aside any learning barriers.
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