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100 Powerful Learning Specialist and Educational Therapy Materials

This week I wanted to tell you about my online store, Good Sensory Learning. I’m Dr. Erica Warren, and I established this site so I could share all the materials that I have created over the last 20+ years as a learning specialist and educational therapist. When I first began my private practice, Learning to Learn, I had great difficulty finding fun and multisensory materials for my students that were effective and engaging. So back in 2005, I made it my mission to design and distribute high-end, remedial products as well as memorable, motivating lessons that bring delight to learning. If you would like to try a free sampling of my activities , CLICK HERE . How Are the Products Organized at Good Sensory Learning? You can download my Free Printable Catalog or you can browse the site using the grey “search all products” bar in the top right of any page with keywords such as dyslexia, working memory, and executive functioning. What’s more, drop down menus in the red banner allow you t...
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Dyslexia Writing Technology: Voice Dream Writer

This blog shares my most recent video podcast, featuring dyslexia advocate and author, Winston Chen. Winston tells us all about the many benefits of his app Voice Dream Writer for individuals with dyslexia. This is the fifth of many free video podcasts for Go Dyslexia!  What is Voice Dream Writer? Voice Dream Writer is an iOS app that can be used on an iPad or iPhone. It is an easy to use writing application that has a number of powerful features. Voice Dream Reader Offers a Number of Helpful Tools: Dictation or Voice to Text: Voice Dream Writer offers voice to text or dictation, so you can speak to your iPad or phone and the words will appear. Proof Reading: Now you can edit your writing by listening to the text spoken aloud. Like a personal proofreader, Voice Dream Writer uses text-to-speech technology, so that awkward sentences, grammatical errors and typos can be easily found. It addition, Voice Dream Writer can read words and sentences as they’re typed or dictated...
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Dyslexia and Voice Dream Reader: A Demonstration and Discussion

This post shares my most recent video blog. Stan Gloss joins me again for a demonstration of Voice Dream Reader as well as a discussion about the many benefits of this text to voice technology for individuals with dyslexia . Resources mentioned in the video podcast: Voice Dream Reader: http://www.voicedream.com/reader/ Bookshare: https://www.bookshare.org/cms Learning Alley: https://www.learningally.org/  URL: https://youtu.be/5cdVCQoiTqU A Breakdown of the Video: 01:29 Downloading Voice Dream Reader from iTunes 02:26 A document that reviews what’s new on Voice Dream Reader 03:17 How to adjust the speech rate 04:30 Managing and downloading voices 05:45 Learning Ally audiobook option 06:48 Adjust text size, spacing, and margins 09:07 Syncing iCloud with Audiobooks in Voice Dream Reader 11:05 Text sources for Voice Dream Reader 11:48 Using Bookshare with Voice Dream Reader 14:32 Using Bookshare and Voice Dream Reader as a reasonable accommodation for stude...
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Dyslexia and Voice Dream Reader: Discussion and Demonstration with Winston Chen

This blog shares my most recent video podcast featuring Winston Chen, the author of my favorite app for readers with dyslexia. This is the first of many free video podcasts for Go Dyslexia! Winston founded Voice Dream while on sabbatical on an island north of the Arctic Circle and his flagship product Voice Dream Reader is an amazing technology device that offers text-to-voice for audiobooks, PDFs, and more. This top-selling iOS app has a recent, free, comprehensive update with some new extraordinary features. Come learn about this creation and view a demonstration of this amazing tool that is changing the accessibility of text for individuals with dyslexia around the world. Mentioned Resource Links: Voice Dream Reader:  http://www.voicedream.com/reader/ Voice Dream Writer:  http://www.voicedream.com/writer/ Abbyy Fine Reader:  http://www.abbyy.com/finereader/ Cam Scanner:  https://www.camscanner.com/user/download Snap to PDF:  https://itunes.apple....
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Two Best Apps for Dyslexics: Words from Designer Winston Chen

Voice Dream Reader  and now the new  Voice Dream Writer  are what I believe to be the best apps out there for dyslexics as well as struggling readers and writers.  I am so pleased to feature an interview with Winston Chen: the creator these Voice Dream apps.  We focused our discussion on his recent release,  Voice Dream Writer .  Erica: If you had to put it into a single sentence, what is at the heart of Voice Dream Writer ? Winston: It helps everyone write better. Erica: Why did you create Voice Dream Writer ? Winston: Over the 3-year period during which I worked on Voice Dream Reader , my reading app, I became aware that reading and learning isn't the only challenge facing students with dyslexia. Writing is as just as problematic. This was obvious from the emails that I receive from users. Beyond education, in the workplace, poor writing puts people with dyslexia at a severe disadvantage. I started to think about ways in which t...
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