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ZoomText

Talking Screen Enlargement

ZoomText 8.0 enlarges, enhances and reads aloud everything on the screen, with unmatched quality and performance. Access to documents, email and the Internet has never been easier or more accurate. The new ZoomText 8.0 comes in two great products; ZoomText Magnifier – a standalone screen magnifier, and ZoomText Magnifier/ ScreenReader – a fully integrated magnifier and screen reader.

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Infogrip.com

Half QWERTY Keyboard - One-handed touch typing with either hand, as well as standard two-handed typing.

Matias Corporation's Half-QWERTY keyboard allows for fast one-handed touch typing with either hand, as well as standard two-handed typing. To type with Half-QWERTY you place your hand on the keyboard, where it would normally be if you were touch typing. For letters of the other hand, simply hold down the space bar and do the finger movement the other hand would have done. Tapping the space bar still types a space.

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Tracker One

Tracker One is a truly revolutionary head pointing device. Tracker One makes computer access even easier. It operates from the USB port of your computer or compatible AAC device and gives you the freedom to be completely mobile without need of battery packs or power adapters. Tracker One incorporates all the dependability and function you trust from Tracker 2000 but has simplified your connection options.

Disabilities AddressedTracker was developed to give mouse control to people with Quadriplegia, Cerebral Palsy, Multiple Sclerosis, Muscular Dystrophy, ALS, Carpal Tunnel Syndrome and any other disability where the user has little or no control of their hands to use a standard mouse.

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NaturallySpeaking

Voice Input Software

NaturalllySpeaking is a dictation program that allows the user to generate text by speaking into a microphone attached to the computer. It allows users with limited hand use, or poor typing ability, to rapidly generate text.

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Intellikeys

IntelliKeys by IntelliTools is a programmable alternative keyboard that plugs into any Macintosh or Windows computer. It enables students with physical, visual, or cognitive disabilities to easily type, enter numbers, navigate on-screen displays, and execute menu commands.


IntelliKeys
was released by IntelliTools in the early 1990’s and was based on the Unicorn Keyboard. IntelliKeys is now one of the leading alternative keyboard device in the world with sales of over 55,000 boards. IntelliKeys is available in two flavors: a Classic and a USB version. (The USB model is Windows 2000 compatible.)

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IntelliTools has created a keyboard that’s flexible enough to meet a wide variety of access and learning needs. Unlike the keyboard normally attached to the computer, the IntelliKeys look and functionality is changeable by sliding in different overlays. The IntelliKeys keyboard comes with six standard overlays plus a setup overlay, that are ready to use with any word processing program or software that has keyboard input. You can also use IntelliKeys with a growing number of commercial software programs made by IntelliTools and other publishers. Each of these programs come with their own custom printed overlays that work automatically when you load the software.

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On-Screen Keyboard

ScreenDoors displays a graphic representation of a keyboard on the computer screen. Clicking on a "key" with a mouse (or alternative mouse device) has the same effect as pressing that key on the keyboard. This allows the user who can use a mouse or mouse alternative, but not a keyboard, to type. Since this process is slow (one letter at a time. ScreenDoors incorporates a word prediction /word completion feature. As the user types, the program displays a list of words that are statistically most likely; if the right word papers in the list, the user can click on it to type the whole word.

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Clicker4 (Crick Software)

Clicker is a powerful yet easy-to-use writing support and multimedia tool that enables children to write with whole words, phrases or pictures.


You click on words, phrases or pictures in a 'Clicker Grid' at the bottom of the screen, to send them into a talking word processor called 'Clicker Writer' at the top of the screen. You can hear words before you write or whole sentences when you've written them.


Clicker is ideal for children in grades K-6. It is also appropriate for people with special needs, as it is switch accessible - you can even use it a as a verbal communication tool.

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HeadMaster

Head-Controlled Alternative Mouse

HeadMaster is a hardware device, consisting of a sensor unit, which is placed on top of the monitor and plugs into the computer’s mouse port, and a headset, which is connected to the sensor unit by a cable. Once the user puts on the headset, nodding and shaking the head cause the onscreen cursor to move up and down or left and right. Clicking can be accomplished and with a built-in breath operated switch, or with another external switch.

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IntelliTalk

Talking Word Processor

This award-winning word processor from IntelliTools combines speech, graphics, and text in exciting new ways.

Reading and writing can present formidable challenges - especially for students with disabilities. The dynamic new features in IntelliTalk II are designed to help students meet challenges and experience success by giving every student the support he/she needs. 

Speech options and auditory Spell Check reinforce letter and word recognition.

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Co:Writer

Word Prediction Software

Co:Writer is the writing assistant with intelligent word prediction that helps struggling students build and write complete and correct sentences. It reduces the number of keystrokes needed to produce a word or sentence, so students aren't frustrated by writing. A Don Johnston best-seller year after year,

Co:Writer makes the writing process easier, faster and even better for struggling writers in all grades.

As the student writes, Co:Writer uses its built-in intelligence to prompt the student with words that fit into the sentence. Three dictionaries to choose from: 2,000 words, for beginning writers, and 10,000 words and 40,000 words for students of all ability levels.


Writing with Co:Writer helps teach students many basic writing process concepts.

 

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