Please Note: School Health can provide Read&Write to government agencies, non-profit and other organizations or groups, individuals including directly to students (excludes school systems).

Read&Write for Mac's customizable easy-to-use toolbar provides reading, writing, studying, and research support tools within familiar applications (i.e. Word, Pages, Safari, Adobe Reader). The mobile version (previously supplied as a USB) can be used on more than one computer, via USB.

Features

• Text to Speech: reads text aloud with dual color highlighting.
• Screenshot Reader: reads aloud inaccessible text, including text embedded within an image or Flash, locked PDFs, or online applications. Text can even be exported directly into Word or Pages document.
• Phonetic Spell Checker: analyzes and returns suggestions with definitions; Phonetic spelling, flexible spelling, and mirror letter errors are identified.
• Word Prediction: learns the writer's style and predicts the word being typed and the next word; prediction can be modified by manually adding words. Indicators show context accuracy to avoid grammatical errors.
• Talking Dictionary: provides definitions as well as alternative words to help expand vocabulary and improve reading comprehension. Basic, advances and online dictionaries support writing skills.
• Picture Dictionary: displays images for selected words. Users can get a visual image to better understand a words meaning.
• Vocabulary List Builder: build lists by highlighting words in a document or web page or by entering words manually. A document is automatically created with the words, definitions and images.
• Sounds Like and Confusable Words Checker: identifies words that sound the same but are spelled differently or words that are commonly confused. Display alternate choices and definitions.
• Verb Checker: helps determine verb conjugation. Once past, present, or future tense is selected, multiple conjugations are provided.
• Talking Calculator: provides the most common functions associated with a Simple or Scientific Calculator; provides an audit trail that shows calculations as they progress.
• Speech Maker: quickly and easily select any text and convert into a sound file, such as MP3.
• DAISY Reader: reads DAISY Books aloud, includes support for MathML and books using the DAISY plug-in.
• Pronunciation Tutor: breaks words into syllables allowing easy recognition of syllables in a word; includes an on-screen moving mouth to help develop more accurate speech.
• Scanning: scans print and digital documents; even scan documents using a digital camera.
• Fact Mapper: produce a visual representation of facts and ideas on screen. Great for idea mapping, brainstorming, outlining, drafting and revising.
• Screen Masking: tints the screen using colors, like an overlay, helping users who have trouble focusing on the screen by masking out active/non-active parts of the screen.
• Online Translator: translates single words, paragraphs or blocks of text into multiple languages and speaks the translation aloud while highlighting.
• PDF Aloud: speech-enables PDF files with dual color highlighting support.
• Study Skills Tools: highlight and extract text from any document or website to create study guides, outlines, etc. Collect highlighted text with bibliography information and export into a Word, Google, or Pages document.
• Summary Feature: allows users, while working in Microsoft Word, to summarize a document by paring down its content by 10% to 75%.
• NIMAS Conversion Tool: creates NIMAS source files from your work (e.g., Digital Talking Books).
The Mobile USB format includes all of the featured of Read&Write Gold with no installation necessary. It contains all of the files required to run Read&Write Gold and lets users store their own files in addition to their personalized toolbar settings.

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Read&Write is supplied as a digital download. Read&Write Mobile contains all of the files required to run Read&Write.
• No installation required - can be used on any Mac computer via USB
• Provides complete portability
• Includes all of the features in Read&Write
• Users can store their own files on the device along with the Read&Write software