dysTalk The Use Of Mobile Phones For Dyslexics - Talks - dysTalk

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About this talk: Neil Milliken gives an insight into how mobile phones can be used by dyslexics to help in daily tasks. He also gives an overview of CaputraTalk, a mobile phone software package that can read text using the phone's camera.

About the speaker: Neil Milliken is in charge of all Mobile Developments for iansyst, a leading provider of assistive technology.

Talk Topics - Dyslexia

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Key Points Covered in This Talk:

• The Use of Mobile Phones: There are lots of things on mobile phones that are really useful for people with dyslexia, short term memory difficulties etc. For instance the organisational tools that come supplied with todays smart phones are invaluable for people with dyslexia and organisational problems. A lot of things can be done with Microsoft Outlook and it is a fantastic tool. However, it only works if you turn your computer on. It is therefore easy to miss appointments if the reminders are only on the computer. With a mobile phone it is always on and always with you so that the reminders always work. Research from the University of Southampton has shown that people value their phones and young people especially engage with their phones. Young people do all sorts of things with their phones and so rather than using a separate piece of assistive technology this can be integrated into the phone. Phones are also discrete so you are not flagging up the fact that you have a learning difficulty or a disability. Many of these assistive technologies can be used in a work and an academic context.
• CapturaTalk: This is a small application designed to give people access to text wherever they are. What you can do is take a picture with the camera on the phone of something that you want read to you and it will read it back in a high quality text to speech voice. It also has a dictionary integrated into it so that if you want to understand a word you can get the definition.