One of my favorite adaptations is as an audiobook player. I personally use audiobooks on my iPad mini and I love it. But enough about me, who does this benefit educationally? Students with disabilities ranging from blindness or low-vision problems to students with limited vocabularies.
But it's the entertainment-like qualities of audiobooks that sucks students in. By this I mean, the narrator of the audiobooks. Taking on the perspective of the student, which I am actually, a good audiobook will always have a great narrator who uses his or her voice, or range of voices to be honest, to bring the words to life. A great example would be Jim Dale, who narrated the American version of the Harry Potter series. Here's an example:
Alex this is awesome! I have always thought of audiobooks as being the tape deck Teddy Ruxbin (I think that's how you spell it?). I think I will do some more app downloading on my own iPad and take into account the accessibility for it. Thanks so much for the post Alex.
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