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With Bookshare, students with disabilities get quicker access to traditional texts

November 21, 2011 /

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When 4th grade teacher Heather Whitby sat down for a book discussion last week with a group of students at her Bethesda, Md., elementary school, other students read on their own, including two who a year ago might not have been able to do so.

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By Nirvi Shah

Full Story: http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2011/11/02/10book_ep.h31.html?tkn=ZWOFCWRjIjCgDkZAMWPR2Oa9bd%2BAVHi4BLl2&cmp=ENL-EU-VIEWS1&intc=es

(Many thanks to Alexandra Volkerts, Senior Staff Attorney, Disability Rights Montana http://www.disabilityrightsmt.org for passing this along.)

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