Sal McKeown showed me a device called a Reader Pen. This reminded me of a handheld scanner I tried out a few years ago. This one, though, rather than only capturing text also has built-in optical character recognition. Crucially, it will replay the text for you as an audio file.

Now, I've literally had a demonstration lasting about 30 seconds, but I was impressed enough to believe that it may be worth exploring if you have, as the blurb says, reluctant readers, students with reading difficulties or EAL students. This kind of device can level the playing field I think.