TextHELP Read & Write Standard 8

This 'floating' tool bar helps improve reading and writing skills with features such as speech feedback, phonetic spell checking, word prediction & homophone support.

The ultimate support tool for students with dyslexia, TextHELP Read & Write offers speech feedback and word prediction for practically any Windows program including word processors, spreadsheets, DTP, web pages, help files or educational programs. It promotes independent learning and improves the accuracy and vocabulary of written work.

Features include high-quality speech feedback, phonetic spell checker, word prediction based on sentence context and specialist dictionaries, a talking dictionary and talking simple calculator. It also has a Word Wizard word finder that combines dictionary and thesaurus to help when you are lost for words.

The speech feedback uses the highest quality voices available. Choose to hear text as you type letter by letter, word by word or sentence by sentence, or have text highlighted as it is read out. Hear icons, menus and help files read out too.

Teachers can monitor spelling mistakes and usage logs and can customise the program, for example by turning the spell checker off for exams. The tool bar style can be changed according to the age and preferences of the user.