UNDERSTANDING AUDHS — Read-Aloud Edition

UNDERSTANDING AUDHS — Read-Aloud Edition

Volume 1 translated automatically and presented as a text-to-speech-optimised PDF for Speechify, Voice Dream Reader, NaturalReader and your smartphone’s text-to-speech functions.

Volume 1 translated automatically and presented as a text-to-speech-optimised PDF for Speechify, Voice Dream Reader, NaturalReader and your smartphone’s text-to-speech functions.

This PDF is optimized to be read aloud. No registration, no email address required.

This PDF is optimized to be read aloud. No registration, no email address required.

Anyone living with AuDHS knows the problem: a 550-page handbook is exactly the format in which information is hardest to consume. This read-aloud edition makes the full content of the German edition’s Volume 1 accessible to AI read-aloud apps and text-to-speech tools. All 24 chapters, the foreword, the glossary and the guide for supporters are included — the only elements omitted are those that cannot be meaningfully reproduced when read aloud.

Anyone living with AuDHS knows the problem: a 550-page handbook is exactly the format in which information is hardest to consume. This read-aloud edition makes the full content of the German edition’s Volume 1 accessible to AI read-aloud apps and text-to-speech tools. All 24 chapters, the foreword, the glossary and the guide for supporters are included — the only elements omitted are those that cannot be meaningfully reproduced when read aloud.

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[01] Info

What is included / not included

Qualifications and Training

Qualifications and Training

Included in full:

Included in full:

Foreword and instructions for use

Foreword and instructions for use

All 24 chapters (Part I ‘Understanding’, Part II ‘Accepting’, Part III ‘Shaping’)

Appendix A: Glossary

Appendix C: Guide for supporters (for partners, family, doctors, employers)

Not included (not suitable for audio):

Not included (not suitable for audio):

Table of contents with page numbers

Table of contents with page numbers

Quick reference cards (visual overview cards)

Tables and exercise boxes

Appendix B: Bibliography and list of links — to be found in the full edition or online if required

Appendix D: Accommodations in the DACH region — see the full edition or the relevant disability officers at your university or employer

References to the worksheets in Volume 2 (these do not make sense when read aloud)

App recommendations for playback

App recommendations for playback

The PDF works with all standard screen-reading apps. Tried-and-tested options:

The PDF works with all standard screen-reading apps. Tried-and-tested options:

iOS: Voice Dream Reader (paid, excellent voice selection), Speechify, and the built-in ‘Read Screen’ feature (Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content)

iOS: Voice Dream Reader (paid, excellent voice selection), Speechify, and the built-in ‘Read Screen’ feature (Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content)

Android: Speechify, NaturalReader, Voice Aloud Reader, as well as Google’s text-to-speech mode

Desktop: NaturalReader (Web/Windows/Mac), Speechify Web, or the system read-aloud functions of macOS and Windows

E-readers: Tolino and Kindle have limited PDF read-aloud functions — for full functionality, a dedicated app on your smartphone is usually the better choice

Note on the print and full editions

Note on the print and full editions

If you also wish to work with the written version — for example, for notes, highlighting or the accompanying worksheets — the printed edition is the right choice, yet available only in German so far:

If you also wish to work with the written version — for example, for notes, highlighting or the accompanying worksheets — the printed edition is the right choice, yet available only in German so far:

Volume 1 (paperback): The complete handbook with all quick-reference cards, tables and appendices

Volume 1 (paperback): The complete handbook with all quick-reference cards, tables and appendices

Volume 2 (paperback): The workbook with 77 worksheets for all 24 chapters — designed for practical application

Volume 2 (paperback): The workbook with 77 worksheets for all 24 chapters — designed for practical application

A full digital edition is in preparation

A full digital edition is in preparation

A complete print and e-book (Kindle) translation, including all appendices, is planned. If you would like to be notified when it becomes available, please sign up for the newsletter.

A complete print and e-book (Kindle) translation, including all appendices, is planned. If you would like to be notified when it becomes available, please sign up for the newsletter.

Feedback

Feedback

This read-aloud edition is new. Does it work in your app? Does the read-aloud voice stumble at certain points? A brief piece of feedback via the contact form will help improve the next edition.

This read-aloud edition is new. Does it work in your app? Does the read-aloud voice stumble at certain points? A brief piece of feedback via the contact form will help improve the next edition.