Re: Dragon Dictate and 8 year old with CP $ cortical vision impairment

From: spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org
Date: Thu Dec 07 2000 - 17:04:58 EST

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    Kurzveil 3000 is an OCR scanning program with screen reader. It highlights
    words and sentences and can enlarge words to be read. Speed of reading is
    entirely under user control. Expensive but effective.

    >I have tried to train a student I work with on Dragon Dictate for Teens. =
    > He is able to repeat back phrases I give him but the computer does not =
    >save frequently enough. Would newer versions be a better option. This =
    >student has a phenomenal auditory memory - he is slow to respond and =
    >voice quality varies. Sometimes when he sounds the most clear, the =
    >computer doesn't take it. Any suggestions? Also what does anyone know =
    >about screen readers and about software that would highlight and perhaps =
    >enlarge words or phrases to be read - that the student could control the =
    >speed to move along? Cortical vision impairment makes patterning very =
    >difficult - 1 day he can read a word - another time he can't. He has =
    >all the phonetic skills to read - any way we can assist him? K Murray

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