Examples of help devices for diverse learners

Help devices can be useful at work and at home for many kinds of people and for different purposes. 
At work a slow writer can use a dictaphone for taking notes in a meeting, at home it can be used for making a shopping list. 
A sound book can be fiction or non-fiction, a text book or a detective story. It can be used anywhere, and it can be used with the printed book for practice. 
The help devices are essential for many people. It is a question finding an optimal way of working or studying. For innumerable others they make work and life easier and more sensible, they allow people to concentrate on the essential, not overcoming difficulties.

Help devices

The aim of the tools is to function in working and learning as a hearing aid functions for the hard-of-hearing or deaf persons. Dys-learners have diverse impediments – tools or sets of tools have to be individually tailored.

Help devices for learning 
•	mobile phone as a notebook and calendar
•	communicator – also for audio taping or photographing visuals
➔	computer – several programs, starting with spelling check, and training programs for dyslexic people, written text to speech, spoken text to writing, bigger text fonts. Many programs can be adjusted for adults or children.
•	speaking www-pages
•	camera
•	audio tape recorder, video tape recorder for lectures, meetings, instructions
•	GPS navigator for those with difficulties in reading maps
•	sound book
•	scanning pen – also for translation
•	reading scanner

The devices do not cure or eliminate diverse learning itself.