Dear David,

On Sat, Sep 6, 2008 at 6:00 PM, David J. Rosen <djrosen at comcast.net> wrote:


> An article in the Straits Times of Singapore, "Katrina hit US adult

> literacy"  [ http://tinyurl.com/6fhd38 ] , describes how the

> hurricane devastated adult literacy services in New Orleans and the

> slow road to restoration. The author describes a critical set of

> contextualized reading and writing skills -- filling out a government

> form to get housing help after a natural disaster.



> David J. Rosen

> djrosen at comcast.net


Ghotit web-site provides a free on-line writing assistance for the
people with dyslexia.
It is accessible using Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari-3.x browsers, where
there is a text-to-speech add-on working with Internet Explorer 7.

The speller is:
- context-aware and context correcting;
- phonetic;
- coping with large editing distances;
- iterative;
- providing description sentences for spelling candidates;
Testing at the corpus of the texts written by the people with dyslexia,
is has above 90% of correction success, where the best word processors
are below 45%.

Plug-ins for Word, Outlook, etc to work directly with Ghotit from the
applications are
in development and are expected in October.

It is not a government forms filling service, that you are looking
for, but is is an online
literacy assistance, which requires a computer with Internet.

People from New Orlean and other areas are welcome to use it immediately.

-- 
Truly,
Robert Iakobashvili, Ph.D.
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www.ghotit.com
Assistive technology that understands you
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