Lorna
Read & Write has the option to adapt the pronunciation of words. So for example you can put in H and tell it to say Hydrogen instead. It would take each of the scientific terms to be programmed in but it can be done.
Best wishes
Jackie Prentice
Texthelp Systems Ltd
www.texthelp.com
>> At 11:50 06/11/2003 +0000, you wrote:
>> >Hi
>> >
>> >Does anyone knows of any software for dyslexic students, like Kurtweil,
>> that
>> >recognises scientific terms or can be programmed to understand scientific
>> >terms? I had a student in this morning studying chemistry and he found
>> it
>> >quite difficult to use Kurweil 3000 since most of the words on a page
>> from a
>> >chemistry text book are scientific terms.
>> >
>> >Thanks
>> >
>> >Lorna Hibbert
>> >Access Support Assistant
>> >Durham University Library
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