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Subject: Re: yes or no

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James Nuttall (Get more testing)

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Date Posted: 10:45:09 06/16/07 Sat
In reply to: sam 's message, "yes or no" on 08:53:45 06/16/07 Sat

I would look for some additional testing from a different educational psychologist. From your posting sounds like you are in the UK. I'm not sure what advantages there are indeed "labeled" in the UK. There are certain legal advantages if you get a diagnosis in the US.

There are also some things that can help with reading that I might suggest.
Here are some recommendations for some text-to-speech programs which will allow your computer to read to your student. A program that I often use on my computer is TextAloud, www.nextup.com ($50 with the voices). This program can read any text in any Windows program. It also comes with an Internet Explorer or Firefox plug-in which can help you read webpages. I find it is the best program for reading webpages.

I can also recommend that you might want to look at the software programs available from Premier Assistive, . Premier Assistive as an MP3 player/flash drive called "Key to Access" ($350). Key to access has about 10 different programs on the drive to assist students with reading and writing. Premier Assistive has excellent programs. Here are some programs on the Keys to Access which I really liked. Universal Reader can read everything on your computer to you. Talking Word Processor will read back to you what you write and also has built-in word prediction to help with spelling. Premier Predictor Pro gives word prediction in any Windows program. Text-to-Audio allows you to create MP3 files and things you've scanned onto your computer. You create MP3 files this create your own audio book.

The Cadillac of scanning and reading programs is Kurzweil 3000 ($1500). A number of school districts use this program. www.Kurzweiledu.com . The nice thing about Kurzweil 3000 is the page that is to be read looks exactly like the page in the book. It has study skills and a simple word processor.

Jim Nuttall -- Michigan
Dictated with speech recognition software Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.1.
www.geocities.com/jnuttallphd

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