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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.

April 1, 2009 /

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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

Full Story: http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_12040295

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