Information meetings on assistive technologies

Studying at university presupposes that the student has built or is further developing skills and competences. Students with specific needs are assumed to develop compensatory skills and techniques that they will be able to use not only in their studies but also in their employment. It is the effective use of assistive technology that is one of the IT skills. We at the Centre would like to introduce you to some of these technologies and, if you are interested, train you in their use.


We invite you to an information session where we will introduce you to assistive technologies suitable as aids to learning. You can choose which of the offered dates suits you best.We invite you to an information session where we will introduce you to assistive technologies suitable as aids to learning. You can choose which of the offered dates suits you best.

Confirm your attendance via the login form, you may need to log in via your university account (as for AIS).

Information sessions on assistive technology for students with learning disabilities

Technologies we will introduce you to:

different types of scanners

  • a scanning pen for scanning words or sentences with the possibility of reading the scanned text and translating it into another language,
  • a handheld portable scanner,
  • a scanner with voice output that reads the scanned text (in different languages)

freely available OCR services to recognise scanned text

  • Robobraille
  • Free online OCR

NVDA screen reader

document reading in MS Office 365, in Edge browser
dictation of documents in MS Office 365

Information sessions on assistive technology for students with hearing impairments

Technologies we will introduce you to:

handheld portable scanner   
wireless microphone

  • designed for remote audio transmission to another device (smartphone, laptop...),
  • for a single speaker (so-called lapel microphone)
  • a method of communication between the microphone and the receiving device

speech-to-text applications (real-time transcription of the spoken word into text)

  • Instant transcription for Android operating system
  • Translator for iOS operating system
  • Mimiuchi web app

Support functions in Office 365

  • translation from/to a foreign language
  • transcription of audio recording to text

Information sessions on assistive technology for students with visual impairments

Technologies we will introduce you to:

screen reader

screen magnifier

scanner with voice output

free OCR services for scanned text recognition

  • Robobraille
  • Free online OCR

reading documents in MS Office 365, in the Edge browser

dictating documents in MS Office 365