Dyslexia - TTRS Website: Touch-Type, Read and Spell

TTRS is a computer based course for children and adults who have spelling and reading difficulties, dyslexia and other learning differences.

Now in it's 20th year, TTRS has helped thousands of students to touch-type, read and spell and is used in hundreds of schools and institutions in Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand and other parts of the world

Learning is promoted by a unique multi-sensory approach:

A systematic programme of seeing, listening, speaking and typing

Seeing the words written on the screen as they are typed out

Hearing the words pronounced as they are typed

Student and computer are interactive allowing for immediate self correction of errors and feedback of results

The structured ttrs course is finely graded in modules and levels building from words to sentences

With each successful module completed the student is encouraged to progress further

Students develop their own learning speed, therefore there are no peer group pressures

ttrs gives focus and support for a positive learning experience

Dyslexia: Predictive text Tool - Penfriends

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Penfriend's suite of literacy tools

Penfriend features a comprehensive suite of literacy tools and so much more! Penfriend claim to be able to support people of all abilities and ages.

If you have a literacy difficulty such as dyslexia you may benefit from tools similar to Penfriend, helping with spelling and grammar.

As well as predicting words when you type, Penfriend will read text aloud from websites, documents, in fact any Windows text-based program.

The Penfriend Blog

With the release of the new Penfriend Blog there are now video tutorials to get you up and running with Penfriend as quickly as possible.

If you’d like to contact or keep up-to-date with what’s happening at Penfriend then you can view and follow them on Facebook and Twitter.

Penfriend benefits?

Penfriend software claims it may benefit users who have dyslexia, visual impairment or physical disablilities, including Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Motor Neurone Disease, Stroke, limb deformities and any condition which impairs the ability to write with a keyboard.

Penfriend also claims to help users to write faster by predicting the next word they want to type, allowing faster writing for longer tasks, promoting better spelling and grammar and encouraging users to overcome low self esteem and become more confident writers.

Features include powerful word prediction, on-screen keyboard, screen reading, lexicon editing and the ability to learn new words as you type.

You Decide
We do not recommend this product but simply provide the information for you to decide whether it is relevant and /or helpful to you. Be careful, take normal precautions and do be confident in the benefits before spending money over the internet.

JISC TechDis Toolbar for Text to Speech, Spell Checking and Dictionary Functions

Here you can see the Demo page of the JISC Techdis Toolbar app developed by Southampton University to help students with Text to Speech, Spell Checking and Dictionary options on all web pages.

It is a downloadable shareware app that is available as an add-on for Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Opera and the MAc OS systems.

Click on the picture or HERE to run the Demo.

The JISC website describes the Techdis Toolbar in this way;

"JISC Techdis Toolbar has been created as an open-source, cross-browser toolbar to help students customise the way they view and interact with web pages to help their study skills.

The concept behind JISC Techdis Toolbar is simple: One toolbar to provide all of the functionality you would usually get in many different products, and which will run in any desktop web browser. "

Got to the JISC Techdis website for more information on this Toolbar and other tools on offer.

NB: This blog does not recommend or endorse applications or products, it is simply here to provide information to the reader.