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Target Audience: Students who have already been assessed by Disability Service
Read&Write Gold is text-to-speech software, a reading, writing and proofreading tool.A text-to-speech tool which gives your computer a voice. You can use this tool when reading text on your computer, for example, when writing an essay in Word, reading your email or researching on the Web.
Read&Write also has a built in dictionary to allow you to check on definitions as you read. If you get confused with same sounding words like "their", "there" and "they're" then the homophone checker could be useful to you.
- Getting started with Read&Write
- Reading text in a document
- Reading PDFs
- Using the Spell Checker
- Predicting text
- Using the Dictionary
- Checking for homophones
- Scanning with Read&Write
- Using the Study Skills toolbar
Delivered By: IT Training
Prerequisites
This course assumes that you have beginner level IT skills, i.e. that you can use a mouse and keyboard and that you are confident with basic formatting, e.g. changing font, cutting and pasting, and saving files.Please brings headphones with you. You should already have attended the following course, or have equivalent skills: