{"id":9190,"date":"2025-11-04T16:06:03","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:06:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T16:06:03","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:06:03","slug":"dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t Miss It: Assistive Technology \u2013 Support for Families in November 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alert alert-info\">\n<p>View a translated version of this page:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=am&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Amharic \u12a0\u121b\u122d\u129b<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=ar&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Arabic \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=zh-CN&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Chinese (Simplified) \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=zh-TW&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Chinese (Traditional) \u7e41\u9ad4\u5b57<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=fa&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Farsi (Persian) \u0641\u0627\u0631\u0633\u06cc<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=fr-CA&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">French (Canadian)<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=gu&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Gujarati \u0a97\u0ac1\u0a9c\u0ab0\u0abe\u0aa4\u0ac0<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=pa&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Punjabi \u0a2a\u0a70\u0a1c\u0a3e\u0a2c\u0a40<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=es&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Spanish Espa\u00f1ola<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=tr&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Turkish T\u00fcrk<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=uk&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Ukrainian \u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u0301\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430 \u043c\u043e\u0301\u0432\u0430<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www-wrdsb-ca.translate.goog\/blog\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/?_x_tr_sl=en&amp;_x_tr_tl=vi&amp;_x_tr_hl=en&amp;_x_tr_pto=wapp\">Vietnamese Ti\u1ebfng Vi\u1ec7t<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>Parents, Families and Caregivers: Are you looking for ways to support your child?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Assistive Technology Team of the Waterloo Region District School Board (WRDSB) is available to support you. In November, they are offering a learning series focused on digital translation tools to help you support your child\u2019s learning at home, whether in French or other home languages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>Assistive Technology Tools for Parents, Families and Caregivers<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join the Assistive Technology Team for the remaining parts of a learning series on digital tools. This series will discuss digital translation tools to help you support your child\u2019s learning at home, whether in French or other home languages.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><b>Learning Series<\/b><\/h3>\n<h4><b>Part One: Creating Read&amp;Write Profiles for Different Languages\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn how to create and switch between Read&amp;Write profiles (for French, English or your home language) so your child can easily translate materials to increase understanding.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wednesday, November 12, 2025, from 12:00 p.m. to 12:30 p.m. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/meet.google.com\/fnc-mggd-axy\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join the Google Meet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>Part Two: Translation Tools for Reading &amp; Writing<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn how to use Read&amp;Write translator tools to instantly translate full paragraphs, pages, or even spoken words.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Tuesday, November 18, 2025, 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/meet.google.com\/mia-htmn-kxw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join the Google Meet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h4><b>Part Three: Translation Tools for Websites<\/b><\/h4>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn about Read&amp;Write and Google tools that can support translation on websites.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wednesday, November 5, 2025, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/meet.google.com\/vmq-wabz-qmj\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join the Google Meet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wednesday, November 27, 2025 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/meet.google.com\/buz-auqc-cda\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Join the Google Meet<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>How to Attend<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><b>No registration is required.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Simply join a Google Meet at the appropriate time to join the session you want to attend. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>View a translated version of this page: Amharic \u12a0\u121b\u122d\u129b Arabic \u0639\u0631\u0628\u064a Chinese (Simplified) \u4e2d\u56fd\u4eba Chinese (Traditional) \u7e41\u9ad4\u5b57 Farsi (Persian) \u0641\u0627\u0631\u0633\u06cc French (Canadian) Gujarati \u0a97\u0ac1\u0a9c\u0ab0\u0abe\u0aa4\u0ac0 Punjabi \u0a2a\u0a70\u0a1c\u0a3e\u0a2c\u0a40 Spanish Espa\u00f1ola Turkish T\u00fcrk Ukrainian \u0443\u043a\u0440\u0430\u0457\u0301\u043d\u0441\u044c\u043a\u0430 \u043c\u043e\u0301\u0432\u0430 Vietnamese Ti\u1ebfng Vi\u1ec7t Parents, Families and Caregivers: Are you looking for ways to support your child? The Assistive Technology Team of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\" role=\"complementary\"><a href=\"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/2025\/11\/04\/dont-miss-it-assistive-technology-support-for-families-in-november-2025\/\"><strong>Read more about<\/strong> <cite>Don\u2019t Miss It: Assistive Technology \u2013 Support for Families in November 2025<\/cite> &#187;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/schools.wrdsb.ca\/continuing-education\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}