Reading support

Are you student with a reading disability – due to for example dyslexia, vision impairment or ADHD? If so, you can get help at the library with obtaining adapted course texts, such as talking books.

Talking books are produced by the Swedish Agency for Accessible Media, MTM, and registered in their catalogue, Legimus, where you can search for and download them.

Legimus, MTM’s catalogue in Swedish

TorTalk is a tool that you can use to listen to all types of text, on your mobile phone and on your computer.
You can choose language and speech speed.
As a student or employee at Lund University, you have access to TorTalk.
TorTalk is available for PC and Mac, and also as an app for iPhone/iPad and Android mobiles.

• Download support software here

Ally is a tool in Canvas that allows you to get access to documents in different formats. Ally can convert documents to various formats. 
For instance, it can convert them to MP3 so that you can listen to them, ePub for convenient reading on a phone, or bullet-point format for individuals with impaired vision.

Read about how you can use Ally in Canvas' student guide – canvas.education.lu.se (requires log-in)

Integrated in Canvas is also the Immersive reader. The reader can read texts aloud in Canvas for you or machine-translate it into other languages.

With the help of Immersive reader, you can also see the text on Canvas in different fonts, with different background colours or with different word classes shown in different colours.

Read about you can use Immersive reader in Canvas’ student guide (In Swedish) – canvas.education.lu.se (Requires log-in)

Those who are entitled to reading support are entitled to borrow course literature for four weeks instead of two. Book an appointment for a review of the library's reading support via:

lasstod [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (lasstod[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)

At the Faculty of Law Library there are 4 reading support computers, they are in the Lagerlöf & Leman group room on the second floor. On these computers you will find:

• Reading software
• Speech synthesis software
• Spell checking software

Access to the room requires a specific decision. For more information contact the library: lasstod [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (lasstod[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se)

or the student counselling service: studievagledningen [at] jur [dot] lu [dot] se (studievagledningen[at]jur[dot]lu[dot]se).

To access all the support that the University can offer, please contact the Disability Support Services. This may include, for example, help with note-taking, mentoring or extended exam time.

For more information please visit Students with disabilities | Lund University