software FOCUS ON SPECIAL NEEDS.(Software Review)(Evaluation): An article from: T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education)

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From the supplier: A variety of products for students with special needs are reviewed. IBM's SpeechViewer III helps students with hearing disorders and those in need of speech therapy by creating engaging, interactive displays of speech. It comes with all seven Visual Voice Tools for developing fine control of the voice. A Speech Patterning feature lets students see how their voices produce a phoneme and practice speaking to match a model phoneme. WeMedia's Talking Browser, available free of charge, is intended for users with low vision and some learning disabilities. It facilitates Internet use through text-to-speech technology. Don Johnston Software's Press to Play Series caters to children with a variety of physical impairments, learning disabilities and other special needs. Aurora Systems' Aurora Prediction helps students who need assistance learning to write, aiding with choice of homophones by providing definitions and usage examples for more than 2,100 homophones.

Citation Details
Title: software FOCUS ON SPECIAL NEEDS.(Software Review)(Evaluation)
Author: Elizabeth Amberg
Publication:T H E Journal (Technological Horizons In Education) (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2001
Publisher: T.H.E. Journal, LLC
Volume: 28 Issue: 10 Page: 54

Article Type: Evaluation, Product/Service Evaluation

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