Bookshare on a Student IEP

Your student has Bookshare listed on their IEP, now what?

Submit a Technology Ticket CC Assistive Technology

Your Assistive Technology Specialist will:

Create a Bookshare Account for the student.
Email the family with instructions on how to start a Personal Bookshare account. Bookshare app is available for Families to use on home devices.
For K-8th graders (iPad Users)
- Dolphin EasyReader app will be added to students iPad.
For 9-12th graders (Chromebook Users)
- Students will be given access to the Full version of the Read&Write extension.
Bookshare folder will be created in students Google Drive.
When Books are requested they will be placed into the student Bookshare folder ready for the student.
If there is curriculum, textbooks, books read in class for lessons, these are all able to be added to Bookshare so the student has access to listen to their materials.

What is Bookshare?

Bookshare® is an ebook library that makes reading easier. Members can access a huge collection of ebooks and read their way with the most customizable ebooks for people with reading barriers.

Bookshare operates in the U.S. under a copyright exemption—the Chafee Amendment—which grants nonprofit organizations the ability to make books available to people with print disabilities without publisher permission.

Thanks to funding from the US Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), Bookshare is free for all qualified US students and schools. Bookshare’s current funding award from the Department of Education is also referred to as the DREAM (Delivering Revolutionary Equitable and Accessible Materials) Center.

Using Read&Write

Using Dolphin Easy Reader app