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Ghotit Releases the First Android Writing & Reading Solution for People with Dyslexia

January 21, 2014
You’re on the road and suddenly you receive an urgent email that you must answer immediately. What do you do?

You take out your smartphone/tablet and write an answer. But what if you are dyslexic and must have a writing assistant to help produce clear and error-free text?

Texthelp Releases iReadWrite – iPad App for Struggling Readers and Writers

Woburn, MA, March 13, 2013

Texthelp Inc., provider of award-winning literacy software solutions, today announced the release of iReadWrite for the iPad.

iReadWrite is an easy-to-use reading and writing App that benefits struggling readers and writers of all ages especially those with dyslexia, dysgraphia, or other learning difficulties.

Support features include text-to-speech with dual color highlighting, word prediction, phonetic spell checker, dictionary, and picture dictionary.
iReadWrite runs directly on the iPad with no need for Wi-Fi or 3G access.

Jack Dolan, President of Texthelp Inc., states, “As more schools turn to iPads as an AT device for their students, they have been asking for an iPad App to give them access to the same Read&Write features that they currently use on the PC or Mac.

Dyslexic Man, Learning-Disabled Wife Charged for Not Filing Census Form

Andrew Duffy, The Ottawa Citizen
Published: Friday, May 25, 2012

OTTAWA – A dyslexic Pembroke man is outraged that he’s been charged under the federal census law for failing to fill out a form that he can’t read.

Eric Stone, 48, said he opened the door Thursday to an Ontario Provincial Police officer, who politely informed him he was being arrested for failing to fill out the 2011 short-form census.

His wife, Kerry O’Neill, who suffers from a serious learning disability, also was charged.

Eric Stone, 48, said he opened the door Thursday to an Ontario Provincial Police officer, who politely informed him he was being arrested for failing to fill out the 2011 short-form census.

Seeking a New Deal on Dyslexia

ELISABETH TARICA
May 31, 2010

A NATION as self-confident as Australia doesn’t expect to receive lessons in advanced education practices from such humble places as Irvinestown, a small village two hours west of Belfast in Northern Ireland.

Yet that’s what Nola Firth found this year when she visited the 250 students at the village’s St Paul’s Primary School, where sophisticated and effective
strategies were being used to deal with dyslexia.

Ghotit Revolutionizes Writing Experience for People With Dyslexia

Ghotit released innovative context-based spell checker enabling people with poor spelling to write correctly

(1888PressRelease)
February 18, 2009 -Tel Aviv, Israel – Dyslexia is the most prevalent of all known learning disabilities. According to the National Institutes of Health, approximately 5-15
percent of the population suffers from severe reading and writing difficulties associated with dyslexia. Dyslexics spend significant time, effort and money
to improve their written communication skills.