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Read & Write GOLD
This
award-winning literacy support software
is an easy-to-use customizable toolbar that "floats" on the screen or docks to a locked position.
Developed by textHELP Systems, Inc., Read & Write Gold works seamlessly within Windows applications such as Microsoft Word and Internet Explorer and also reads PDF documents.
www.texthelp.com/page.asp?pg_id=10059
Kurzweil Educational Systems
Recognized as the leading developer of reading technology for individuals with learning difficulties and those who are blind or visually impaired, Kurzweil produces several software products including:
Kurzweil 1000: Solutions for Blind Readers and Kurzweil 3000: Solutions for Struggling Readers. All of their products incorporate synthesized voices coupled with a robust set of easy-to-use features for accessing, reading, managing, and creating text and images.
www.kurzweiledu.com/
SOLO™
Designed for students in grades 3-12, this Don Johnston, Inc. software tool set
builds learning skills in reading, writing, planning, organizing, revising and editing.
SOLO builds skills independently by helping students practice research-based reading and writing strategies in
content area subjects.
www.donjohnston.com/products/solo/index.html
Visual Thesaurus
This virtual thesaurus is an interactive dictionary and thesaurus with a unique visual display map that encourages exploration and helps make meaning out of and show relationships between words.
www.visualthesaurus.com/desktop/index.jsp
AspireREADER 4.0
This Windows-only software, developed by Aequus Technologies in partnership with CAST,
helps struggling students improve reading and learning outcomes by providing access to digital talking books, Web pages, and word processing through synchronized visual, auditory, and tracking features. AspireREADER 4.0 is
Section 508 compliant.
www.cast.org/products/ereader/index.html
eReader.com
The world's largest eBook store, this site has over 17,000 electronic book titles, including books, magazines, and reference tools for sale. The site also contains their free award winning eReader software, which can be downloaded for Palm OS or Pocket PC handhelds, as well as Mac and Windows computers.
ereader.com/
Speegle
Speegle is an Internet search engine that reads search results aloud to the user. After entering search terms and receiving results, the program will read through the list of results with descriptions of each page. Using a variety of keyboard shortcuts, students can navigate the results list without the use of a mouse.
www.speegle.co.uk/
VoyCabulary
This site offers the ability to make any web page a "live" glossary. It makes the words on a web page into links so that you can look them up in a dictionary or other reference site by simply clicking on the words.
www.voycabulary.com
del.icio.us
del.icio.us is a social bookmarking Web site, which enables users to store their bookmarks on the Web, not within their own browser. Once stored, users can access their bookmarks from any computer that has a browser and Internet access. Users can also organize and share their bookmarks with others.
del.icio.us Read Please
Read Please is a free downloadable tool. It reads any text file from the Internet. Four natural-sounding human voices are included (Mary, Mike, Sam and Marilyn) that speak any text copied into Windows. It also allows the reader to increase the text size.
readplease.com/
Tex-Edit Plus
For the Mac, Tex-Edit Plus is a scriptable, styled text editor that fills the gap between Apple's bare-bones SimpleText and a full-featured word processor. It's fast, efficient, and natural-sounding.
www.tex-edit.com/
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