Term | Definition |
Assistive technology | • Technology that is available to assist individuals to participate in activities
As independently as possible |
What is Read & Write Gold | • Assistive technology and study skills software used at Lawrence School
• Started by an Irish company,
Texthelp Systems |
TextHelp Button & Anchor | -Toolbar Selection
-Toolbar colors, options
-General Options
-Video Tutorials
-Closing RWG
-Unlocking toolbar from current location |
Spellchecker Tool | -Phonetic spell check tool
o Phonetic = spelled like it sounds
• Can listen to and read each word with Reading Tools
• Can listen to and read each definition to make a better choice during spell checking |
Word Prediction Tool | • Similar to T9/text prediction on cell phones
• Predicts the word you want to type
Predicts words phonetically (i.e. ‘foto’ will list
‘photo’ on the list |
Dictionary Tool | • Select a word then click the dictionary icon to see a definition of the word
• You can listen to the definitions with the Play button on the Reading tool
• Clicking on a definition will show you
Possible related words like a thesaurus
adults |
Picture Dictionary Tool | • Select a word then click on the Picture Dictionary icon to see a
Visual representation of the word in the corner of your screen
• You can double click on any picture to add it to your Word document |
Word Wizard | • The Word Wizard takes you on a Tour of a specific word |
Sounds Like and Confusable Words Tool | • aka The Ears or The Triplets
(Ms. Garza’s name for this tool)
• great proofreader for words often confused (homophones, homonyms,antonyms, synonyms, common typo errors and other confusable words) |
Verb Checker | • The Verb Checker is a little tool to allow you to see how a verb should be Conjugated |
Calculator Tool | It is a talking calculator |
4 Calculator tools | Standard Calculator
Scientific Calculator
Evaluate In Document
Convert |
Reading tools/ Text To Speech Tools | Reading tools let your hear digital text |
Screenshot Reader | • Allows you to read Inaccessible text e.g. locked PDFs
or inaccessible flash and within programs (like MAP tests)
• Click on the tool and then draw a box around what you want to have read to you
listening to new |
Speechmaker | • Allows you to convert selected text into a sound file such as an MP3
• A wizard will guide you through the conversion process.
• Allows you to create your own audio books |
Daisy Reader | • Reads Daisy Books (books in specific format for the blind) Anyone with |
Pronunciation Tutor | Words are pronounced and syllables displayed |
Scan Tool | • This tool is used to OCR documents (make them readable with Read & Write Gold or
other assistive technology software)
• Determines which parts of a page are letters/numbers vs. picture
OCR: Optical Character Recognition |
FactFinder Tool | Shortcut to do quick web search directly from RWG toolbar |
Fact Folder Tool | • A tool to collect information (facts, pictures) from the
internet to create a list of facts/pictures with complete bibliography
• Must use Internet Explorer – does not work in Firefox or Chrome |
Fact Mapper | Like inspiration, but not reccomended |
Screen Masking Tool | Aka The ADHD Tool
• helps the user to remain focused on a specific point of computer screen/page
• can choose different options or colors to help stay focused |
Speech Input | • This tool allows you to easily create documents by dictating into a microphone connected to your computer. Uses Windows Speech Recognition tools (or Dragon if you have Dragon installed on your computer) |
Translator | • Click this button to open the single word translator, and then select a word to have it
translated.
• ***Note: You must be online to use this feature.
• can choose:
French
Spanish
Italian
German |
PDF Aloud | • Click this button to launch Adobe Reader.
• Open your PDF document.
• On the PDF Aloud Toolbar, (located in Tools/plugin in Adobe 10, 11 or
later) select ‘click & speak’. |
Study Skills Tools | • Use the buttons on this toolbar
To highlight and collect sections of text
• use the Collect Highlights tool to collect all highlights into a Word document with bibliography.
Good for collecting facts that must happen immediately vs over time |
Vocabulary Tool | AKA The Picture Board Tool
• Can be used in conjunction with Study
Skills highlighters or alone |
Word Cloud Tool | • Used selected text or word banks to create and display a Word cloud/list/word bank for use when writing,filling in worksheets or taking tests |
Voice Note Tool | Record a voice note and insert it into a Microsoft word document |