--- Forwarded Message from Tammy Berberi <[log in to unmask]> --- >Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:39:51 -0500 >From: Tammy Berberi <[log in to unmask]> >User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.13 (Windows/20070809) >To: [log in to unmask] >Subject: accommodating a severely dyslexic student Dear all, Has anyone used a voicing software program, such as Dragon Naturally Speaking, to allow a beginning FL student with severe dyslexia to complete written assignments? I doubt this would even work because of the demands of training the program to recognize a voice. Can anyone offer effective alternatives to producing written work for a beginning foreign language (in this case, French) course? Thanks much, Tammy -- Tammy Berberi, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of French U Minnesota, Morris http://www.morris.umn.edu/academic/french Office: Humanities 216 [log in to unmask] tel 320.589.6264 fax 320.589.6253 Mailing address: Division of Humanities 600 East Fourth Street Morris, MN 56267 *********************************************** LLTI is a service of IALLT, the International Association for Language Learning (http://iallt.org/), and The Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning (http://www.languageconsortium.org/). Join IALLT at http://iallt.org. Otmar Foelsche, LLTI-Editor ([log in to unmask]) ***********************************************