Technology

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• Computers: Software: Educational: Special Education  (31)

Assistive Technology for Dyslexics - - Software for people with dyslexia. The vocabulary support package talks, types, checks spellings, correct mistakes, and predicts. Applications include word processing, spreadsheets and the Internet.

Dragon 'Naturally Speaking' - - Speech recognition program for PC and MAC.

Dyslexia support software - - PC software to help dyslexia sufferers and others with literacy or numeracy problems.

IBM ViaVoice - - Speech recognition software: types what you say.

Prolexia Reading Education Software - - UltraPhonics Tutor software teaches reading, spelling, handwriting, and pronunciation to beginners and those with dyslexia via multisensory structured phonics.

Technology for dyslexia - - Software for dyslexia, talking computers, text to speech synthesis, speech recognition, and TextHelp.

TextHelp 'Text to Speech' Software - - Software for people with reading and writing difficulties, including talking spell checkers, word predictors and screen readers. Available for Windows and Macintosh.

Xavier Educational Software. - - Special software for children with special needs, concentrating mostly on the field of dyslexia.

Yak-Yak: Language processor and Internet Wordfinder - - Yak-Yak software is used widely in Scandinavia with dyslexic students and adults and ESL. Web site contains the intelligent Wordfinder - a free service which finds the correctly spelled words when presented with major errors. Available in English, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.