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• Hardware and Software Companies
• Design science

http://www.dessci.com/en/

Design Science (DSI) is the worldwide leader in developing, marketing and supporting software for scientific and technical communication. The MathType, MathFlow, and MathPlayer software products are used by scientists, engineers, educators and publishing professionals, for authoring and publishing mathematical notation in print and online documents, and for building web pages with interactive math content.

• Text Help

http://www.texthelp.com/

Texthelp Systems is the worldwide leader in providing literacy software solutions. The company develops innovative software to help struggling readers and writers, those with literacy difficulties, learning disabilities such as dyslexia, mild visual impairments, and where English is a second language. Software products improve users reading, writing and research skills at school, in the workplace, and at home. Texthelp has three core business divisions: Education & the Workplace solutions, Publishing, and Speech Services.

• Solutions
• Tape Recorders Students with reading problems can work around their problems by listening to recorded text (books, journals, newspapers) rather than reading it. Most public libraries and many bookstores sell books-on-tape. Not all audiotapes work on all tape recorders; they may have varying speeds and formats. Tape recorders can be used to capture spoken information, such as a teacher’s instructions or a classroom lecture. This permanent record allows people to refer back to an oral presentation. People who have difficulty processing, understanding or remembering what they hear may find this helpful. Variable speech control (VSC) tape recorders enable the listener to play audiotaped text faster or slower than it was originally recorded, without losing the actual sounds of the words. Some students understand spoken language better at a slower pace and others find that they can review material faster by speeding up the tape.

http://www.sc.edu/scatp/ld.htm#tape

• Spell checkers are also available as stand-alone desktop and pocketsize tools. Stand-alone spell checkers require users to enter the word (the way they think it is spelled) on a small keyboard. Some devices will simply verify and correct the spelling on a small screen; others offer a complete dictionary and thesaurus. Other devices actually “speak” the words with a speech synthesizer, so the word can be heard as well as seen. These devices are particularly valuable because they change phonetic spelling into correctly spelled words with more accuracy spell checking software.

http://www.sc.edu/scatp/ld.htm#tape