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Education is a lifelong series of learning opportunities – all of which serve to improve people's understanding of their world while empowering them to live better lives. Writing is an important aspect of daily living as well as a powerful tool that furthers understanding and learning by an individual. TechReady offers a variety of enabling technologies aimed at making the written word more accessible. Some of the tools offered include word prediction programs, audible text readers, text translators, talking books, and word processing through synchronised visual, auditory and tracking feature functions.

Ginger Literacy Support Software

Ginger is a fabulous piece of software providing grammatical and spelling help for a wide range of users, including those with dyslexia, both younger and more senior students and in the workplace.

Price: £90.00 – £1,195.00 (Excl. VAT)

Learning Access Suite

The Learning Access Suite helps schools meet the requirements of the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA) and provides greatly enhanced access to information and text. Price is based on £1.80 per student per year, with a minimum annual fee of £900. There are volume offers available for Local Education Authorities, and smaller schools are allowed to aggregate together should they wish. For pricing please contact TechReady at 020 853 6142 or email sales@techready.co.uk

Price: £1.80 (Excl. VAT)

ClaroRead Plus v5

This software has been developed to help PC users of all capabilities create, read, view, scan and check text, and is integrated with Microsoft Word

Price: £159.00 (Excl. VAT)

Claro WordRead

WordRead provides an audio read back of any text on your computer using a human voice. By using the world-leading voice synthesis technology - ScanSoft RealSpeak – the accuracy and human quality of text read-back is highly impressive.

Price: £59.99 – £89.00 (Excl. VAT)

ClaroRead Plus for Mac

ClaroRead Plus for Mac is a highly effective software solution for supporting those who have struggled with reading, writing and learning. Designed with maximum simplicity, adaptability and flexibility in mind, users, especially students of any age and level of ability will have a world of information unlocked through ClaroRead for Mac.

Price: £185.00 (Excl. VAT)

textHELP Read & Write Gold for Schools

Read&Write GOLD for Schools is a literacy support tool designed to assist users of all ages who require extra assistance when reading or composing text. It offers support functionality frequently absent in mainstream Windows applications. In addition, it provides a host of study features to assist any user with research and composition. The software works discreetly with all mainstream Windows applications. This offers users with literacy difficulties the opportunity to work in an inclusive manner alongside their peers and colleagues. Read&Write GOLD for Schools is a simple to use toolbar that "floats" on top of any open application. Assistance can then easily be called upon as the user works.

Price: £305.00 – £2,245.00 (Excl. VAT)

textHELP Read & Write Gold

Read&Write GOLD V9 is a literacy support tool designed to assist users of all ages who require extra assistance when reading or composing text. It offers support functionality frequently absent in mainstream MS Windows applications. In addition, it provides a host of study features to assist any user with research and composition. The software works discreetly with all mainstream Windows applications. This offers users with literacy difficulties the opportunity to work in an inclusive manner alongside their peers and colleagues. TextHELP Read&Write GOLD is a simple to use toolbar that "floats" on top of any open application. Assistance can then easily be called upon as the user works.

Price: £320.00 – £350.00 (Excl. VAT)

textHELP Read & Write GOLD for MAC

Read & Write GOLD for MAC is designed to provide literacy support for users of all ages and abilities who need help with their reading and writing. Used in conjunction with the majority of mainstream computer applications Read&Write GOLD for MAC allows users to develop their literacy skills and enjoy greater independence.

Price: £320.00 (Excl. VAT)

textHELP Read & Write Standard

Read&Write 9 is a discreet, integrated solution for any User's literacy needs, offering outstanding literacy support to all. It has been designed as a 'floating' toolbar that will help improve reading and writing skills, with features such as speech feedback, phonetic spell checking, word prediction & homophone support to cover every aspect of the learning spectrum.

Price: £140.00 (Excl. VAT)

Kurzweil 3000

Kurzweil 3000 is the comprehensive reading, writing and learning software solution for any struggling reader, including individuals with learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, attention deficit disorder or those who are English Language Learners.

Price: £195.00 – £725.00 (Excl. VAT)

Kurzweil 3000 for Mac

Kurzweil 3000 for Mac is a scanning and reading tool with visual and speech feedback

Price: £500.00 – £725.00 (Excl. VAT)

Clicker 5

An accessible text to speech writing and multimedia tool with scanning grids and words banks.

Price: £135.00 (Excl. VAT)

ProtoType

ProtoType - Assists typing with word completion, spelling support, speech and symbols. This is a wonderful product for those with dyslexia or mobility issues.

Price: £60.00 – £480.00 (Excl. VAT)

Dolphin EasyTutor - Learning/Literacy Support

The Dolphin EasyTutor is an ideal solution for people who have dyslexia or difficulty reading, writing and spelling. Computer users can write, read, view and check text with Dolphin Tutor's supporting speech output!!!

Price: £199.00 (Excl. VAT)

InfoScan - Handheld Pen Scanner

This completely mobile device offers users a quick and easy way to take notes from almost any printed document, creating fully editable MS Word documents on the PC, PDA or any Windows application.

Price: £74.99 (Excl. VAT)

ClaroLingo Software - single user

ClaroLingo is fantastic new development from the company behind ClaroRead, the easy-to-use software solution for supporting students who struggle with reading, writing and learning. It is designed to support people learning English and other languages.

Price: £149.00 (Excl. VAT)

Penfriend XP

Penfriend XP combines terrific performance with a range of well chosen features and surprising ease of use. It features world class word prediction, speech feedback, and on-screen keyboard for Windows Vista, XP, 2000, NT.

Price: £20.00 – £99.00 (Excl. VAT)

Penfriend XL

Penfriend XL, a powerful piece of literacy software combining the features of a screen reader with text magnification, coupled with word prediction and on-screen keyboards in many languages.

Price: £30.00 – £149.00 (Excl. VAT)

ClaroRead Standard, v5

ClaroRead has been developed to help PC users of all capabilities create, read, view and check text. The software is closely integrated with Microsoft™ applications, with particular emphasis on Microsoft Word.

Price: £129.00 (Excl. VAT)

Olympus DM-450 Digital Voice Recorder

With the very latest audio processing technology on board, the Olympus DM-450 brings high quality recording and playback to users’ fingertips.

Price: £132.00 (Excl. VAT)

Reading Pen - Oxford Dictionary Touch Screen

The new Oxford Touch Screen Reading Pen is designed to help readers of all ages and abilities improve their English reading skills. As well as scanning, spelling and defining single words using the Oxford Concise dictionary, it allows whole lines of text to be defined and scanned. See below for more on this pen's rich feature set.

Price: £191.30 (Excl. VAT)