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Learning Disorders

Learning Disorders On-Line
Site dealing with issues such as parent and teacher strategies that can help get the new year off to a good start. What can parents do at home? How do types of classes affect the student with LD and/or ADHD? How can a parent instill good study skills?

The Interdisciplinary Council on Developmental and Learning Disorders
The Interdisciplinary Council includes outstanding professionals from the different disciplines working with children and families where there are developmental and/or learning problems. Its aim is to improve the identification, prevention and treatment of developmental and learning disorders.

LEARNING DISABILITIES RESEARCH & TRAINING CENTER
The University of Georgia
The research and training for and about adolescents and adults with Specific Learning Disabilities. This Center and it's research are funded by the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (NIDRR). The LDR&TC follows a Constituency-Oriented Research and Dissemination (CORD) policy to incorporate consumer reports and expertise throughout the planning and realization of both research and training goals. Implementation of all activities involve collaboration with national, state and local organizations.The LDR&TC focuses upon four comprehensive research strands by integrating the resources of six major institutions: the University of Georgia, Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation, Georgia University Affiliated Program, Auburn University, James Madison University and the Center for Learning Potential. These four strands follow the conceptual, regulatory, and consumer frameworks surrounding needs of adults with Specific Learning Disabilities.

Learning Disabilities Association of America
LDA is a non-profit organization of volunteers including individuals with learning disabilities, their families and professionals.
LDA is dedicated to identifying causes and promoting prevention of learning disabilities and to enhancing the quality of life for all individuals with learning disabilities and their families by encouraging effective identification and intervention, fostering research, and protecting their rights under the law. LDA seeks to accomplish this through awareness, advocacy, empowerment, education, service and collaborative efforts.

National Centre For Learning Disabilities
Since 1977 NCLD has reached out to individuals with LD, their families, educators, researchers, and others committed to increasing public awareness of and opportunities for people with LD.

Text Readers

iSpeak Personal Text Reader, from Fonix, reads text with a natural, human sounding voice using inflection, intonation, and pauses, to facilitate listening comprehension. This is not only a useful product, it is also a lot of fun. It injects “personality” into your PC with voices that let you control speed, pitch, and volume. iSpeak allows you to quickly and easily transform text into clear, natural sounding audio files. With just a few clicks, you can conveniently scan e-mail, review Websites and listen to lengthy documents - all while working on other tasks, like browsing the Web, cooking dinner or writing a letter. You can even save text files as portable MP3s and then listen to them on a plane, in the car or anywhere else you want to be. iSpeak is also ideal for those who are learning English as a second language or for children who are just learning to read. Simply highlight the desired text and then hit play to hear how it’s read, or set iSpeak to pronounce specific words as they’re typed in. The uses for iSpeak are many.

ReadPlease shatters the myth that computers must sound robotic and monotonous. Just imagine having web pages and e-mail read aloud to you. Anyone serious about using the Internet would agree that there is a great deal of reading from the computer's screen. ReadPlease users find they can relax while ReadPlease does the hard work. Many ReadPlease users are finding less eye stain and muscle strain. Just one of the surprising uses of ReadPlease is for proofreading work. ReadPlease is environmentally friendly since many users who used to print web pages to read, are simply "listening" to the pages.

Text-Reader Dictionary
An add-on to the Internet Explorer. It converts the browser into:
Tool for reading. The program improves readability of the text by changing fonts, page layouts, and smooth scrolling.Speaking dictionary. You can see the explanation of a word in the pop-up hint, and hear and read the pronunciation of the word. You can make a choice among lots of dictionaries (English, German, French, Italian etc.).Vocabulary drills. A couple of very efficient tests will help you remember new words in the shortest possible time.
You can read text files and web-pages on and off-line.

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