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Welcome to the website of the British Dyslexia Association New Technologies Committee!
B.D.A. NTC is a committee of the British Dyslexia Association (B.D.A.), who over many years have been concerned with all aspects of technology and how they can assist dyslexic people.
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NTC members have a professional or personal interest in how people with dyslexia can use technology to help them develop strategies for coping with using literacy at school, college, work or everyday living.
B.D.A. belongs to the Right to Read alliance.
We look at new developments in hardware and software and attempt to evaluate how useful they are in helping dyslexic people to work more independently.
This blog is complementary and additional to the main B.D.A. website, where you can find out about all other aspects concerning dyslexia.
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We have noted your comments and moved some to relevant pages, so that it is easier for tablet users to scroll to the bottom of the page to call up the menu. Do add more comments, particularly of dyslexic experiences.
Hi,
I am a Learning Mentor at St. Joseph’s School, Rawmarsh; supporting a boy aged 8 who has dyslexia. He is very bright but finds reading and writing extremely frustrating despite all efforts to support this. Could you please advise if there is any soft ware that we could use in school that is easy to use (eg txt to speak?)
Also please advise if there is any funding for this or do schools have to provide this from their budget. Also is worth the parents trying to claim desability allowance to help with this.
Your advice in this matter would be appreciated.
There are a lot of suggestions in the pull down menus for ICT and writing and Literacy – as he is 8 a good starting point could be Clicker6 go to the http://www.cricksoft.com website to try it out.
Depends on your LA, but I think most consider this should come from your SEN funding or pupil premium.
Parents used to be able to claim DA but not so easy these days