I think these tools are really neat (I liked the first one). With so many students in our district coming from varying cultures and backgrounds, this could help us try to understand the pronunciation of various names before even meeting a student. I still feel that it would be important to ask the student (however they're most comfortable) to pronounce it themselves, though, since we know that even names we've seen before and think we know how to pronounce could be pronounced differently person to person. I think the tools provided could be really great for use with our nonverbal students or with individuals who might be harder to understand as a supplementary tool when doing the work to understand how to pronounce their names correctly.
