Read & Write Gold

What is this service?

Read&Write literacy software makes the web and documents more accessible for students, and employees with impairments or reading difficulties.  Read and Write Gold is a text-to-speech program that provides visual and auditory feedback of text. Read and Write has proven to be beneficial for people with learning difficulties, dyslexia or visual impairments, English Language Learners (ELL) and those learning English as a Second Language (ESL). The program includes reading, writing and literacy support:

Why is it useful?

Read&Write has many useful functions, such as clarifying texts by segmenting and highlighting words, and using an advanced spell check that works on phonetics.

How do I access this service?

StFX currently holds a license for Faculty, Staff, and Student users. This license works for StFX issued machines, as well as personally owned ones.

Click here to view our Knowledge Base article on how to download Read&Write Gold.

Who can access this service?

  • Students
  • Faculty
  • Staff
 
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StFX has campus license for Read&Write gold. From hearing emails or documents read out loud to text prediction, picture dictionaries, summary highlighters and a grammar, spelling and confusable words checker, Read&Write makes lots of everyday literacy tasks simpler, quicker and more accurate.

Details

Service ID: 21590
Created
Mon 7/24/17 11:25 AM
Modified
Mon 5/3/21 8:47 AM