Torrance, CA / Assistive Technology services

Providing Assistive Technology, Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) and Occupational Therapy services to Southern California. Our services include assessments, training, therapy, consultations and professional development in-service training.

- Company Info

Believe Ability, Inc.
PO Box 325, Torrance, CA 90507
310-295-1024 / 888-55-ABILITY phone/fax
info@believeability.com
www.believeability.com
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assistive_technologyinfo@yahoo.com

Resources

11-5-07

· Read Please 2003—www.readplease.com, free download

Read Please 2003 is a program that allows you to copy and paste any text into the window and have it read to you. Example: you can copy and paste email text and it will have it read it to you.

· Microsoft Word

In the very early stages of my learning Assistive Technology I’ve used Microsoft Word to record my voice. How you go about doing that is going to: insert, object and scrolling down to wave sound.

· Kurzweil 3000— www.kurzweiledu.com

Kurzweil 3000 is a program that allows you to scan documents into your computer and have it read to a student. One of the features is if a student has low vision the program, while reading the text, will highlight the text in yellow.

· One Note—www.office2007.com

One Note is a program that allows you to record your voice and type reports to be shared with co-workers etc.

· Google Docs and Spreadsheets—free when you create an account

Google Docs and Spreadsheets allows you to type perfectly good documents and then email them. You may type up to 100 spreadsheets/documents.

· Google Calendar—free when you create an account, www.google.com

Google Calendar is an online calendar that you can keep your daily appointments on and it also has a feature where the calendar can be emailed.

· Dragon Naturally Speaking—www.nuance.com

Dragon Naturally Speaking is a program that allows you to record your voice and whatever you say comes up in text. Since Dragon Naturally Speaking is a sensitive program it takes a lot of time and patience to train it.

· Google Book Search—www.google.com, more, books

Google Book Search is a text preview of books.

Free audio books

Category: free audio books
Time posted: 2:45 p.m.
date posted: Sunday, November 4, 2007
In this in this entry I will be talking about free audio books.
Neil Blix are books that can be listened to on your computer.
I just discovered a website that provide audio books for free www.audiobooksandfree.com
I you find any more websites in free audio books please feel free to share them.
Note: all entries will be checked and reviewed/ acceptable use that content.
If this does not meet with the ache that the believe content.
It will not be posted.
Stephen Hiatt Leonard
commuter/founder, assistive technology blog

Category: e-mail newsletter Saturday, November 3, 2007
Here is the very first edition of the assistive technology blog eat newsletter.
For Saturday, November 3, 2007.

Please complete the survey on the spawn to let me know (how many times you would like this to come out).

Below is the very first edition of the assistive technology blog.
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In this issue of the very first assistive technology blog e-mail newsletter.You'll find programs and resources that are again towards.Assistive technology.


Company name; custom solutions Streamwood Illinois

-- Bridget Nicholson assistive technology consultant and occupational therapist.Brings a wealth of expands to the assistive technology field, she served the Northwest suburb school districts.As well as she has a wealth of products that can be useful.
The contact information for custom solutions is listed below;www.customsolutions.us www.customtyping.com E-Mail: bnicholson@customsolutions.us Phone & Fax: 888-842-2613 (Toll-free)



Company: nuanceDragon NaturallySpeaking:Dragon NaturallySpeaking is a program.That allows you to speak in no microphone and half text appear on screen/it takes what you're saying and makes it appear on the screen and text.
It also can be used for e-mail/web surfing, how it works is that if you have Dragon NaturallySpeaking open on your computer and have your Internet connection open.To the Web then you can speak your e-mail and speak the website you want to go to any address bar.
The company information for Dragon NaturallySpeaking is listed below;on the Web at; www.nuance.com
customer-service;hours:Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)phone number: 1-800-654-1187
Google docs and spreadsheets:Google docs and spreadsheets allows you to type the documents and/or spreadsheets from anywhere and then e-mail in them to people.You have the option of also collaborating with people, or just seen them from yourself.When you go to the e-mail feature and then tend to have it gave you the following options e-mail as a war document/PDF.

Google calendar;bool calendar is an online base calendar that is stored on Google.It allows you to keep appointments/scheduling, it also allows you to collaborate with people so that they can be your calendar.Or you can just do it for yourself.

Free e-books;
Microsoft has a wealth of information in terms of e-books if you go to www.Microsoft.com and search e-books in the search feature a number of e-books will come up.The selections of e-books include (ministries) (biographies) (fiction) (nonfiction).
Free-e-books.netif you have difficulty reading/writing then this might be the thing for you.This service is completely and totally free and it has a wealth of information.Www..free -- e-books.net


read please;
weekly is a program that allows you to copy and paste any text that you see on your screen.Example from e-mail spreadsheet or a Word document.For more information on this product please contact read please;www.readplease.com


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Google docs and spreadsheets information!

Tuesday November 1, 2007
category Google
topic docs and spreadsheets/calendar
in this entry I will be talking about Google ducks and spreadsheets.
Google ducks and spreadsheets allows you to type from anywhere (if you have an Internet connection).
You can share documents and spreadsheets by e-mailing than to each other/coworkers.
When you click on the e-mail button and the sand tab you can go down to choose from many options.
The options are send as a Word document/PDF format.
It also has a feature which allows you to collaborate on documents by collaborating.
You have the option of sharing the documents with coworkers.
Or you may choose to view the documents and spreadsheets for yourself
calendar
the calendar feature is just like any other calendar but it's stored.
Online similar to Google ducks and spreadsheets, you can choose to share with coworkers or just keep it for yourself
I use Google docs and spreadsheets/calendar.
For school for school work and when I report to work.
Basically I use a spreadsheet feature in Google docs to take messages and keep records.
And I use it off so to type information.
Evanston Township high school's (special education department).
The consultants uses it for informal notes on the students she serves not only at Evanston Township high school but the other schools in the northwest suburbs.
This concludes the blog entry for Thursday, November 1, 2007.
Please feel free to contact me if you have any questions or would like any information on the stuff that is posted in this blog entry, or if you would like something to be posted on this blog (subject to the acceptable use and content)

Dragging financially speaking

Wednesday Wednesday October 31, 2007

category speech recognition/time posted 7:15 p.m.

this is post that I am currently talking about is Dragon NaturallySpeaking Dragon NaturallySpeaking allows you to speak into a microphone and then it will, take what you say and transfer them into words.
Dragon NaturallySpeaking takes some time to train but if you have the patience to do this it should be easy.
Assistive technology blog survey;
what can I need to to make resources easily accessible to you
question to did you find all the information they needed to help you in terms of its assist technology if not please explain
think you for participating in the survey :-)
sincerely,
Stephen Hiett-Leonard
Creed and founder, assistive technology blog

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Stephen Hiatt-Leonard
Creator & Founder
The Assistive technology blog

Assistive Technology services in Torrance, CA

Providing Assistive Technology, Augmentative/Alternative Communication (AAC) and Occupational Therapy services to Southern California. Our services include assessments, training, therapy, consultations and professional development in-service training.

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Company Info

Believe Ability, Inc.

PO Box 325, Torrance, CA 90507

310-295-1024 / 888-55-ABILITY phone/fax

info@believeability.com

www.believeability.com (under development at this time)

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UP to date!

Bridgette Nicholson, Occupational Therapist & Assistive TechnologyConsultant

Consultant Company: Custom Solutions

Company: web sites:

(A.) www.customsolutions.us

(B.) www.customtyping.com

(C.) www.learningtools.us

Company info

E-Mail: bnicholson@customsolutions.us

Phone & Fax: 888-842-2613 (Toll-free)

cell (847)638-2895

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Company ReadPlease Corporation

Company info:

ReadPlease Corporation121

121 Cherry Ridge Road

Thunder Bay, ON, Canada

P7G 1A7

Phone: 807-474-7702

Fax: 807-768-1285

Note: 807 is not a toll free area code.

Company: web sites: http://www.readplease.com/

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Compamy:Google Inc

1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy

1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy

phone: (650) 253-0000

Company web site :

www.google.com

go to more & even more
(A. Calendar or B. Docs & Spreadsheets)

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If you have any assistive technology info that you wood like to be Posted on this blog llet me know
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My Resources

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Mrs. Bridgette Nicholson,Occupational Therapist & Assistive Technology Consultant / Custom Solutions

on the web at:
www.customsolutions.us

www.customtyping.com

www.learningtools.us

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ReadPlease 2003 (free)
on the web at:
www.readplease.com

ReadPlease will read any text you see on your screen. This can be from your Browser, Email, Word processor, Spreadsheet or any program which displays text.

Why not press the button right now, and take a moment to have ReadPlease read this file to you.

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Quick Start for ReadPlease

How to get ReadPlease to read text.

1. Locate the text you want to have read.

2. Select it with the mouse.

3. Copy to the Windows Clipboard.
(Use Edit + Copy menu, or
the hotkey - Control + C).

4. Launch ReadPlease, and Paste it into the
ReadPlease window.
(Use Edit + Paste menu, or
the hotkey - Control + V).

5. Press the green ReadPlease Play button.

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READPLEASE AND YOUR WEBSITE

ReadPlease-enable your website:
It is easy to ReadPlease-enable your website, here is how:
http://readplease.com/rpenabledwebsite.phtml

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FEATURES: ReadPlease 2003 (free)

1
http://cnn.com
will launch your browser with cnn.com's site.

2
mailto:support@readplease.com
will launch your Email program

3
Links to files:
[home.txt]

4
Improved control

5
ReadPlease will read to you in many languages - these include UK English, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian.
Download more languages from:
http://readplease.com/languages

6
Drag and drop functionality, you can drag and drop text into ReadPlease from other programs

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FEATURES: ReadPlease PLUS 2003 (not free)

1
Shortcuts and hotkeys in ReadPlease PLUS to make this easier

2
Will automatically read from the clipboard

3
One of the best features in ReadPlease PLUS 2003 is the ReadPlease Taskbar which allows ReadPlease to position itself at the very top of your screen, somewhat like the Start bar at the bottom of your screen.

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ReadPlease PLUS 2003 also has a new Pronunciation Editor to add custom pronunciations to ReadPlease. It is now easy to share your pronunciation with other users.


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SAMPLES

To hear some good samples of ReadPlease, click on the Help menu, then select Samples. Or you may click on these links to access them:

- [rpHowSmartIsReadPlease.txt]
- [rpProofRead.txt]
- [rpchallenge.txt]
- [rpWarWorlds.txt]
- [rpQuiz.txt]
- [rpChildren.txt]
- [rpKennedy.txt]

Sample text in many languages:
- [LanguageSamples.rpps]


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LINK FEATURES

A file like Home.txt could be used as a Table of Contents for your readings.
*[Home.txt]*

This is a test of how one may link files via ReadPlease 2003. It is easy to link to files with ReadPlease 2003, just enclose the name of the file in square brackets.

[sample4.doc]
This is a .doc Microsoft Word file, that will
open using Word.
[sample5.html]
This is a HTML document which will open in
your browser.

Internet and Email Links are supported!

The links above become hyper links because they are in square brackets. You can link to any file by placing the file name and path in square brackets.

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HELP FILE
ReadPlease comes with a complete Help File - see Help menu.


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WEBSITE and AT&T High Quality Voices

Please visit our website for information and availability of AT&T Natural Voices and new languages for ReadPlease.

Website: http://www.readplease.com
We hope you enjoy using ReadPlease - have fun :)

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ReadPlease Corporation
http://www.readplease.com


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Gogle.com Calendar
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Kurzweil 3000

On the web at:

www.kurzweiledu.com

(#5)
springdoo.com

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Dagon natuarlly speaking (version 9)

on the web at:

http://www.nuance.com/

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