Technology

Links

Assistive Technology for Dyslexics

http://www.loriens.com/

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'

http://www.dragonsys.com/

Speech recognition program for PC and MAC.

Dyslexia support software

http://www.spellwell.co.uk

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

IBM ViaVoice

http://www-4.ibm.com/software/speech/

Speech recognition software: types what you say.

Prolexia Reading Education Software

http://www.prolexia.com

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

Teaching Basic Academic Skills

http://www.tis-co.com/dyslexia.htm

Helping those with dyslexia use Abilities Builder software, which creates exercises in spelling, reading, writing and math skills.

Technology for dyslexia

http://www.dyslexic.com/

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

TextHelp 'Text to Speech' Software

http://www.texthelp.com

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.

http://xavier.bangor.ac.uk

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

Yak-Yak: Language processor and Internet Wordfinder

http://www.yak-yak.com

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.