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Touch the Future, Inc.

Touch the Future, Inc. Locations Georgia South Carolina 1456 McLendon Dr 1655 East Greenville St Suite A Medicus Building 2 Decatur, GA 30033 Anderson, SC 29621

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Touch the Future, Inc.

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  1. Touch the Future, Inc. Locations Georgia South Carolina 1456 McLendonDr 1655 East Greenville St Suite A Medicus Building 2 Decatur, GA 30033 Anderson, SC 29621 Office: 770.934.8432 Office: 864.367.0831 Fax: 770.934.8433 Fax: 864.367.0871 Email info@touchthefuture.us

  2. Free Assistive Technology for Specific Learning Disabilities Frank Sapp GaETC Session C246 Touch The Future

  3. Functional Areas

  4. Reading

  5. Text To Speech • Text-to-Speech (TTS) or speech synthesizers receive information going to the screen in the form of letters, numbers, and punctuation marks, and then "speak" it out loud in a computerized voice. Using speech synthesizers allows computer users who are blind or who have learning difficulties to hear what they are typing and also provide a spoken voice for individuals who can not communicate orally, but can communicate their thoughts through typing.

  6. Text To Speech

  7. Voices

  8. Windows XP

  9. MIcrosoft Sam • Only voice included in Windows XP

  10. Microsoft Mike and Mary • Can be downloaded and installed

  11. Windows 7

  12. Windows 8 • Microsoft David (US Male) • Microsoft Hazel (UK Female) • Microsoft Zira (US Female)

  13. Other Voices

  14. L&H • American English Voices - Free Download

  15. ATT Natural Voices • Approximately $35US

  16. Reading

  17. Writing

  18. Spell Checking

  19. Dictionary

  20. Speech Recognition • allow people to give commands and enter data using their voices rather than a mouse or keyboard. Voice recognition systems use a microphone attached to the computer, which can be used to create text documents such as letters or e-mail messages, browse the Internet, and navigate among applications and menus by voice.

  21. Speech Recognition

  22. Homophones • Often, when one is using the term homonym along with homophone (words that sound the same, but differ in spelling and meaning) and homograph (words that look the same, but differ in pronunciation and meaning, it is useful to consider homonyms as having the combined characteristics of both homophones and homographs.

  23. Word Prediction/Completion

  24. Organization

  25. Time Management

  26. Research

  27. Note Taking

  28. Citations

  29. Software

  30. Free

  31. LibreOffice • A credible rival to MS Office, LibreOffice includes powerful applications for making text documents, spreadsheets, presentations, diagrams, and databases, as well as HTML and XML documents. Not only does it let you edit basic documents, such as letters and faxes, it also handles equations and complex and multipart documents with bibliographies, reference tables, and indexes. • http://www.libreoffice.org/default/ • Add Read Text addin to have text to speech capability. There is also a Zoteroaddin available.

  32. LibreOffice

  33. Extensions

  34. Zotero • FREE • Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, cite, and share your research sources. It lives right where you do your work—in the web browser itself. Aksi has plug-ins for OpenOffice.org and Microsoft Word • http://www.zotero.org/

  35. Firefox • No longer a fledgling upstart, Firefox is the gold standard of alternatives to the still-dominant Internet Explorer. Firefox 3.6 is full-featured, lightning fast, and secure. Its killer selection of add-ons remains strong, with built-in support for the next generation of themes, called Personas, plus the latest update makes version 3.6 about 20 percent faster than version 3.5. However, competition is strong and it can no longer be said that Firefox is the fastest browser available. • Firefox is also required to use Zotero

  36. Lingoes • Lingoes is an easy and intuitive dictionary and text translation software, It offers lookup dictionaries, full text translation, capture word on screen, translate selected text and pronunciation of words in over 80 languages. These language are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Greek, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Arabic, Hebrew, Vietnamese, Thai and more... • http://www.lingoes.net/

  37. XMind • FREE • XMind was a commercial program until 2009. At that time, it was released as a free and open source program. There is a paid version which allows saving in additional formats and private sharing on the web. • The layout used here was developed using XMind. • http://www.XMind.net

  38. Balabolka • Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program. All computer voices installed on your system are available to Balabolka. The on-screen text can be saved as a WAV, MP3, MP4, OGG or WMA file. The program can read the clipboard content, view the text from DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTML, ODT, PDF and RTF files, customize font and background colour, control reading from the system tray or by the global hotkeys. Balabolka uses various versions of Microsoft Speech API (SAPI); it allows to alter a voice's parameters, including rate and pitch. The user can apply a special substitution list to improve the quality of the voice's articulation. This feature is useful when you want to change the spelling of words. The rules for the pronunciation correction use the syntax of regular expressions. • Balabolka can save the synchronized text in external LRC files or in MP3 tags inside the audio files. When an audio file is played with players on a computer or on modern digital audio players, the text is displayed synchronously (at the same way, as lyrics for songs). • http://www.cross-plus-a.com/balabolka.htm

  39. Chandler • FREE • Chandler is an open source Note-to-Self Organizer. It features calendaring, task and note management and consists of a desktop application, web application and a free sharing and back-up service called Chandler Hub. • http://chandlerproject.org/

  40. Bruce's Unusual Typing Wizard • FREE • Bruce's Unusual Typing Wizard

  41. Screen Overlays

  42. Screen Tinter • Free • Screen Tinter is a free utility which allows the screen foreground and background colours to be changed at the click of a button. • http://www.thomson-software-solutions.com/html/screen_tinter.html

  43. ssOverlay • Free • Very similar to Dark Screen, ssOverlay (the ss stands for Scotopic Sensitivity), places a coloured overlay onto the screen. The colour and transparency levels can be adjusted to suit the user. Everything is controlled from the icon in the Notification area of the Taskbar (where the clock sits). Clicking this icon will open the menu which allows the selection of Multi Monitor Support, and the percentage of dimming of the screen

  44. Talking Calculator • From Premier AT Software • http://www.readingmadeez.com/products/TalkingCalculator.html

  45. Commercial

  46. Microsoft Office • Microsoft Word 2010 has a number of features to help with writing. Among them a spell checker, thesaurus, autocorrect, outlining and citation features. • Student Home Edition includes Word, Powerpoint, Excel and OneNote. It can be installed on three home pc's. • MS Student Home Edition Price: $149

  47. Hardware

  48. PC

  49. iXXX

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