Thank you, Rochelle for your kind words.  I am very glad the Manual 
has been helpful to you.  I have given away just about every printed 
copy I have, and I don't anticipate having a budget to print more 
(it's expensive!).  That is one reason that we put it on our web 
site.  We are thrilled if people print it and use it.
I will add that if anyone is venturing into NYC, and dares to come to 
the beautiful Bronx, we would be very happy to have you come and 
observe our program and the ways we are using the technology.  You 
can contact me off the list.

Mary S. Kelly, PhD
Director, Fisher Landau Center for the Treatment of LD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1165 Morris Park Ave.
Bronx, NY 10463
718-430-3908

At 07:18 PM 4/10/2008, you wrote:

>Hi Mary,

>

>Your LD Access document is a wonderful resource.  I have my own 

>copy.  I frequently use it and recommend it highly to people that I 

>work with.  I think it is a 'must' for anyone working with students 

>that have Learning Disabilities.

>

>If our readers want an original document, how can they get one?

>

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><http://www.aecom.yu.edu/cerc/pdf/LD_ACCESS.pdf>http://www.aecom.yu.edu/cerc/pdf/LD_ACCESS.pdf 

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>Thanks for sharing this wonderful resource!

>

>

>Rochelle

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>Rochelle Kenyon

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>I run a program for low literacy learning disabled adults. We have 

>used the CAST e-reader for quite some time. We use it in several 

>ways. When individuals are working on their writing/spelling, they 

>can get immediate feedback using the e-Reader. The only glitch is 

>homonyms, but we work around that. Our adults also use it to access 

>web pages, email, etc. They love it because they really feel part of 

>the mainstream. We decided not to use the updated AspireReader 

>because it had too many bells and whistles and our adults found it 

>complicated to use.

>We tried the reading pen, but found that it required too much fine 

>motor control and was not flexible in terms of the tests it would 

>read (e.g., it would not read words that were printed in all upper 

>case letters). I understand that they are better now, but we haven't 

>really felt the need for them.

>Most successfully we use a speaking speller from the Franklin 

>company. These are small portable electronic dictionaries that 

>pronounce many words.  Almost all our adults use these. They are 

>particularly helpful when people are working on their homework or 

>other literacy activities and don't have a tutor handy to read words 

>for them. This has helped us enormously in terms of improving 

>self-confidence and improving the willingness to do independent literacy work.

>We wrote a manual that describes our experiences with low literacy 

>LD folks and technology.  It can be viewed an downloaded at

><http://www.aecom.yu.edu/cerc/pdf/LD_ACCESS.pdf>www.aecom.yu.edu/cerc/pdf/LD_ACCESS.pdf 

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Director, Fisher Landau Center for the Treatment of LD
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1165 Morris Park Ave.
Bronx, NY 10463
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