sorry - not a child but a colleague- tools to help with dyslexia

[madmouse]

hello

we have a new colleague (lawyer) who is severely dyslexic and by his own admission does not speak clearly, so dictation is a nightmare for his secretary. a fellow manager is talking about voice recognition software but having difficulty getting it to recognise his speech. I am still on maternity leave and have asked them to make sure that they ask him what he needs ( would bl**dy well hope they do).

but what do your dyslexic dcs use at school/ at home? any advice?

Hi, I have a colleague who is badly dyslexic. He uses voice recognition software - they can mostly be trained to recognise your speech patterns, though it can take a bit of effort at first as you have to correct all the words it has got wrong (which can be hard if you don't see that they are wrong!)

The other thing he uses is a tablet PC which allows him to handwrite notes (easier for him than typing, apparently) and saves them as pdf files so he can refer back to them later.

sorry.. not a child here.. but a dyslexic adult. ..

some of the problem with speech recognition programmes that I found ( but this was 8 years ago) was that I had to read out texts in order to get the programme to learn my speach pattern. It was very tiring and a pain in the butt.! things may have changed tho.?
BDA has lots of ideas softwares and gadgets that can help tho.. might be worth checking their site out.

( I always find typing easier btw LOL)

thanks for your help guys passing it on