At 10:52 05/12/96 GMT, you wrote:
>We want to buy some laptops for dylexic students to use in class and to take
>home with them. We think that important features are clear screen,
I would almost always reccommend a TFT screen
>good spellchecking, >i.e. a good word processor but not necessarily more
than that.
Word 7 in Windows 95 gives instant feedback. We do a little homophone/word
confusion checker SoundsWrite but this is only Windows 3.1 until probably
February. There is also TextHelp (ianSyst) and Prophet & WordAid(us again)
which give on-screen dynamic lists (see ours and iansyst's Web pages)
>reliability,
Toshiba and IBM are both good makes as are others but they are expensive.
RM also have very good service agreement.
IBM compatible but not necessarily very powerful
>Sheila Shaw
>--
>Computing Courses for People with Physical Disabilities
>Jennie Brooks Computer Suite
>Lewisham College
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