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Buffalo State University has a subscription to Read&Write, a literacy support tool that offers help with everyday language tasks. This software is available for all students, faculty, and staff members to use as needed. In addition to providing access to the software download and installation on personal computers, the application is pre-installed on all Buffalo State authorized computers on campus.

Read&Write provides the following study skills features:

• Text-to-speech – Highlights text and reads it out loud, providing multiple means of access.
• Text highlighting – Uses multiple color highlights and extracts them to an MS Word or Google doc to create a notes file.
• Vocabulary list – Highlights words within a reading to create a vocabulary list of the highlighted text.
• Speech-to-text – Dictates content in MS Word.

Please provide this resource to all students, as this product supports struggling readers as well as English language learners.

The download and installation process can be found on the Student Accessibility Services Assistive Technology site. Tutorials on how to use this product are also linked from this site.