Tag Archives: Texthelp Read&Write GOLD
Texthelp Toolmatcher: Getting the most out of Read&Write GOLD
Posted in Tools & Resources
Katie Lyon May 9, 2013
Katie Lyon May 9, 2013
For those of you out there utilising all of the many great features of Texthelp Read&Write GOLD you will already know there is something for just about everyone! But I’m sure there are many people who are still just using the basics of the program for one or two students in their classrooms and are maybe not aware …
Spectronics Online : Wrap up of 2012 and What’s New in 2013!
Posted in Latest News, Tools & Resources
Jay January 10, 2013
Jay January 10, 2013
Texthelp R&W Gold HotKeys: Keys to success for people using alternative access.
Posted in Techniques & Tips
Katie Lyon November 21, 2012
Katie Lyon November 21, 2012
Whilst setting up Texthelp Read & Write Gold for someone I was supporting recently, I was reminded of it’s many flexible and customisable features, including HotKeys. HotKeys are keyboard shortcuts that you set up to access each of the buttons in the Read&Write 10 Gold toolbar. For example, the key combination of Ctrl Alt Q will stop playing …
Improved prediction for Texthelp Read & Write – now that’s GOLD!
Posted in Latest News
Katie Lyon July 4, 2012
Katie Lyon July 4, 2012
For those of us who are using Texthelp’s Read & Write Gold for either Windows or Mac, we know what a comprehensive tool it is for anyone who struggles with reading and writing. Among many other features, it reads text aloud from any document or online, has a speaking dictionary, spell check and prediction tool, and built in …
Simple English Wikipedia – what a simple way to create PDF books!
Posted in Tools & Resources
Katie Lyon May 17, 2012
Katie Lyon May 17, 2012
Simple English Wikipedia is similar to the Wikipedia we know and love, but it uses Simple English words and grammar. This is great for some of the people we support who have literacy difficulties or for people who are learning English. There are over 82 000 articles on the website – so heaps of topic areas relevant to …
Perth it’s your turn for a Texthelp Read&Write GOLD Workshop this Month!
Posted in Events, Workshops
Barbara Landsberg August 17, 2011
Barbara Landsberg August 17, 2011
Join us for a full day of hands-on training learning about the NEW Version 10 of the popular Texthelp Read&Write GOLD literacy support software in Perth on Friday 26th August – 9am to 4pm. Where? Rydges Perth | Cnr Hay and King Streets | Perth CBD. Why is the Texthelp Read&Write GOLD program so popular? With so many …
Read&Write GOLD Version 10 just released and new Certified Trainer Workshops
Posted in Events, New Technologies, Tools & Resources, Workshops
Barbara Landsberg March 7, 2011
Barbara Landsberg March 7, 2011
A new version of the popular literacy support program, Texhelp Read&Write GOLD for Windows has just been released – Version 10! It still offers its popular “floating toolbar” format, seamlessly working with all standard Windows-based programs (meaning that struggling students are not ostracised by having to use programs that are different to those used by their peers).
FREE Online Training – new sessions for you!
Posted in Events, Permanent Resources, Techniques & Tips, Web links, Workshops
Katie Lyon June 25, 2010
Katie Lyon June 25, 2010
You may be aware of our FREE Online Training Sessions that are available for a number of different software programs including Boardmaker, Communicate: Symwriter, Clicker 5 and Texthelp Read and Write Gold. The sessions go for about an hour and are delivered by either one of our teachers or speech pathologists who have had experience using the software. …
Winner of Spectronics Blog comments competition
Posted in Latest News
Barbara Landsberg November 1, 2009
Barbara Landsberg November 1, 2009
As you may have been aware, Spectronics has been running a competition for anyone who posted a comment to the Spectronics Blog before October 30th 2009 to be in the draw to win a free copy of Texthelp Read&Write Gold Mobile USB version (worth $800 AUD/ $960 NZD). Congratulations to Jan Shand at Huntly College in NZ! You …
The Mac is back!
Posted in New Technologies, Tools & Resources
Barbara Landsberg September 30, 2009
Barbara Landsberg September 30, 2009
Over the past two years, we have noticed a marked increase in the number of Apple Mac related enquiries coming in to Spectronics’ advisory, training and technical support teams. So it may be of interest to you to be aware of a couple of new text-to-speech programs now available for the Mac platform.
