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District highlights iPad accessibility features, says technology supports communication and inclusion

3137723 · March 3, 2025
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Digital learning staff demonstrated iPad accessibility tools used across Lewisville ISD — speech-to-text, text-to-speech, translation and guided access — and described classroom examples where tools aided nonverbal students and supported instruction.

Lewisville ISD digital learning and special education staff demonstrated how iPad accessibility features are being used to support students across classrooms, including nonverbal students, emergent bilinguals and students with learning differences.

Cathy Fields, administrator of digital learning, and Julia Solnick Frazier, instructional technology professional learning coordinator, joined speech-language therapist Janae Lysinger and special-education interventionist Lauren Abel to present examples of four commonly used features: speech-to-text (dictation), text-to-speech (read-aloud), translation…

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