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Abbreviation Expansion Program

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  1. AURORA SUITE Picture of AURORA SUITE Aurora Suite is a word prediction, abbreviation expansion, and voice output communicator program designed for use by individuals with communication or learning disabilities. It can be used for typing emails or instant messages, writing documents, or for any other task that requires typing. Word prediction works with any application to save keystrokes. Other features include a talking spellchecker and homonyms assistance. Aurora Echo feature provides simple screenreading and a complete range of t...[More Information]

  2. CO:WRITER 4000 Co:Writer 4000 is a word prediction program designed for use by children and teens with learning or upper extremity disabilities. This voice output program utilizes FlexSpell and the Total Vocabulary System (TVS) to provide users with the tools required for writing. FlexSpell enables students to work at their developmental spelling level by permitting them to begin words phonetically or by cueing initial letter combinations; both approaches provide lists from which the correct word can be selec...[More Information]

  3. GUS! WORD PREDICTION Picture of GUS! WORD PREDICTION Gus! Word Prediction is a word prediction program designed for use by individuals with fine motor or upper extremity disabilities and individuals who use one hand on a computer keyboard. This voice output utility program can be used with standard application software. It places an "always on top" window on the computer screen, which can be stretched or shrunk to any size, with automatic adjustment of font size. As the user begins to enter a word, the box displays a list of choices. Words are pre...[More Information]

  4. INSTANT TEXT / ASSISTIVE EDITION Instant Text / Assistive Edition is an abbreviation expansion program designed for use by individuals with upper extremity, fine motor, and learning disabilities. This program uses advanced technology to expand a few keystrokes to full word, phrases, or sentences by automatically comparing three or four keystrokes in a particular order to words or phrases in the dictionary-like glossaries. The program then offers the user a choice of all words and phrases meeting the criteria. Keystrokes are sav...[More Information]

  5. INSTANT TEXT V PRO Picture of INSTANT TEXT V PRO Instant Text V Pro is an abbreviation expansion program designed for use by individuals with fine motor, upper extremity, or learning disabilities. This program can expand an abbreviation even if the user cannot remember some of the non-initial letters. It can create glossaries for a specific subject automatically by analyzing all words and phrases that appear in documents dealing with that subject. It can also suggest sentence continuations when typing documents that use standard clauses, as is...[More Information]

  6. KEYWORKS V 3.0 AND KEYWORKS ADVANCED VERSION Keyworks is a keyboard enhancer program that allows the user to type long strings of characters or commands ("macros") by typing a one- or two-key combination. Keyworks also offers pop-up menus of available macros, full screen editing of macros while running another program, and a DOS window. Both fixed and variable-length pauses are available within predefined macros. Pop-up menus of available macros may be designed and named by the user. Keywords Advanced Version features screen-reading capabi...[More Information]

  7. PENFRIEND NA Picture of PENFRIEND NA Penfriend NA is a word prediction and abbreviation expansion program designed for use by individuals with fine motor, upper extremity, and learning disabilities. This voice output utility program can be used with almost any word processor program. Every time the user types a letter or letters, the program provides a list of the most likely words which fit those letters. The list appears in a new window, with user-selectable text and background colors. The user picks one of these words by pressin...[More Information]

  8. PENFRIEND XL Picture of PENFRIEND XL Penfriend XL is a voice output screen reader, text magnifier, and word prediction program designed for use by individuals with dyslexia or low vision. The spoken text is transferred automatically to the clipboard where it can be magnified for users with visual impairments. An icon in the clipboard enables the user to switch the screen reading on and off with a single click. Web pages can be read in a variety of European languages with native voices. The program speaks back text as the user write...[More Information]

  9. PENFRIEND XL-NA PORTABLE USB STICK Picture of PENFRIEND XL-NA PORTABLE USB STICK The Penfriend XL-NA Portable USB Stick is an accessibility software module holding a word prediction, abbreviation expansion, screen reader, and on screen keyboard program designed for use by individuals with dyslexia, low vision, or upper extremity or other physical disabilities. This unit provides the literacy support features of Penfriend XL-NA for use on an unlimited number of computers, one at time. It requires no installation and can be taken between classrooms, work sites, and other locat...[More Information]

  10. QUICKEYS 4 Picture of QUICKEYS 4 QuicKeys 4 is software program designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or fine motor disabilities. With QuicKeys 4 the user can automate everyday tedious basic functions and things that are difficult to remember. This software allows the user to automate his or her computer in two ways: Abbreviations and Shortcuts. Abbreviations are words typed into a document that are then automatically replaced by QuicKeys with longer text. Shortcuts are collections of one or more steps that perf...[More Information]

  11. REACH INTERFACE AUTHOR Picture of REACH INTERFACE AUTHOR The REACH Interface Author is an on-screen keyboard, word prediction, and software authoring program designed to increase computer accessibility for people with upper extremity or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. REACH includes a variety of on-screen keyboards; word prediction with four vocabulary settings from 7,000 to 45,000 words, as well as customizable user dictionaries; two built-in augmentative communication systems, including one with a system of more than 120 "speech ...[More Information]

  12. SCREENDOORS 2000 Screendoors 2000 is an on screen keyboard, abbreviation expansion, and word prediction program designed for use by individuals with upper extremity disabilities. The program offers the choice of a standard QWERTY keyboard, an alphabetical keyboard, and a frequency of use keyboard. The word prediction feature enables the user to type a few letters and the program provides a list of words beginning with those letters. The abbreviation expansion feature enables the user to type an abbreviation, and...[More Information]

  13. SOFTYPE 4.2 & SOFTYPE 4.5 FOR INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARDS Picture of SOFTYPE 4.2 & SOFTYPE 4.5 FOR INTERNATIONAL KEYBOARDS SofType is an on screen keyboard program designed for use by people with upper extremity, neurological, or severe physical disabilities or spinal cord injury. This graphical keyboard program provides access to Microsoft Windows applications and works with any mouse or mouse emulator, such as the HeadMouse or HeadMouse for Portables (not included; see separate entries). The software includes a variety of features including word prediction, which enables the user to select a word from the included...[More Information]

  14. SOOTHSAYER WORD PREDICTION PROGRAM The SoothSayer Word Prediction Program is a word prediction and abbreviation expansion program designed for use by individuals with upper extremity or cognitive disabilities. Features include sentence completion; abbreviation expansion; a main dictionary of more than 11,000 words; a built-in speech augmentation dictionary; customizable user dictionarie swith a "Build Dictionary" feature (from a text file); word-usage learning and word tips options (words presented/spoken individually instead of ...[More Information]

  15. TEXTHELP! READ & WRITE TextHELP! Read & Write is a voice output word processor designed for use by individuals with dyslexia and other learning disabilities. This toolbar-style application package offers speech feedback as the typing progresses in a choice of letter by letter, word by word, sentence by sentence, paragraph by paragraph, or by highlighted text block. Word by word speaking of highlighted text helps the user associate the written word with its sound. This software will read any onscreen text, including me...[More Information]

  16. VS WORDPREDICTION Picture of VS WORDPREDICTION VS Wordprediction is a word prediction program designed for use by individuals with learning disabilities. The program helps users with writing disabilities to write grammatically correct sentences and/or increase their writing speed on the computer. The program uses frequency word lists to predict which word is about to be written. As the user writes, the dictionaries are trained to know which words that individual uses more often. The user can create additional word lists by importing text, an...[More Information]

  17. XTRAKEY XtraKey is a program that allows "macros" to be defined for keys on the computer keyboard. A macro is a string of characters which can be activated by typing one character. The user can assign up to seven different macros to each key, and by selecting the macro set and then depressing a key, the user selects that string of characters for that key. The length of each character string is limited only by the amount of memory the user wishes to consume. Defined macros can also be set up so as to act...[More Information]

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