Comment Re:Kurzweil Educational Systems (Score 1) 330
This is excellent advice. Kurzweil is an amazing program. A couple of other things I recommend a lot as a special education consulting teacher are Don Johnston's (donjohnston.com) Co:Writer and Write Outloud. New versions are supposed to be released this month. These tools assist the writing process. Co:Writer is a prediction software that helps the writer by predicting what he is attempting to spell based on letters typed, positioning of the word, location in the sentence, proximity to other words and user history. A pop-up menu shows a list of up to nine possibilities. It will read the choices aloud on mouseover and enter the word with a click or by typing the number of the word. Special topic dictionaries are available. The new version can be used with web browsers and any text application. Write Outloud is an auditory feedback word processor. It is customizable in terms of what is spoken (letter, word, phrase, paragraph) and works well in tandem with Co:Writer.
AlphaSmart, a portable word processor, has a Co:Writer applet. This is a very simplified version that allows the word prediction on the screen. The Dana by Alphasmart has more features and a Palm operating system to boost the capabilities to endless choices. Bigger screen as well.
AlphaSmart, a portable word processor, has a Co:Writer applet. This is a very simplified version that allows the word prediction on the screen. The Dana by Alphasmart has more features and a Palm operating system to boost the capabilities to endless choices. Bigger screen as well.
