ABSTRACT

One of the reasons we like computers is because they can make difficult things easier – like writing. They give us perfectly formed, easily legible text every time. They also help us to create beautifully formed sentences, because we can keep reworking the words until we get them just how we want them. And they can even help us to choose the words we need, either through the use of word-banks or text predictors. We can even talk to them and they will scribe whatever we say. Computers can make reading easier too. There are talking books, CDs, and screen readers – software that reads whatever is on screen.