[senit] Supporting a student with aphasia

From: Simon Bloor <simon.bloor at access-summit.org.uk>

Commercial Interest

Hi Simon

Our word prediction program Co:Writer uniquely uses grammatically based word
prediction so will help with the construction of grammatically correct
sentences.  Some years ago Walsall College did a project using it with Sign
Language users.  Because of the grammatical differences between written
English and Sign Language, this group would often miss out the little words
too.  The project found that Co:Writer was useful for prompting them to put
them in written work.

Jamie

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> From: Simon Bloor <simon.bloor at access-summit.org.uk>
> Reply-To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:53:18 -0000
> To: <senit at lists.becta.org.uk>
> Conversation: Supporting a student with aphasia
> Subject: [senit] Supporting a student with aphasia
> 
> 
> Dear all
> 
> A colleague saw  a post-graduate research student recovering from a
> stroke, which has left him with Broca's Aphasia.  He now tends to speak
> in broken sentences, omitting all the little words, for example "I
> Manchester train."  (He means "I come to Manchester by train.")  He also
> finds himself typing like this, when attempting to produce written work.
> He is has had a little experience of using the programs 'Read Please'
> and Kurzweil, and is trialing 'Texthelp: Read and Write'.  Can anyone
> suggest a program which would more specifically help with picking up
> where he may have omitted words and give suggestions for words to be
> inserted? Any advice gratefully received on this, or other ways in which
> support might be provided!!  .
> 
> Many thanks
> 
> Simon Bloor - Access SUMMIT
> 
> 
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