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Getting Started with Penfriend
A significant benefit of Penfriend is that you can start using it without any prior knowledge – “it works straight out of the box” as one happy customer recently commented. This tuto… more →
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iReadWrite for your iPad
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wrote 1 month ago: Download: texthelp-talks-back-ireadwrite-entry-daniel.mp3 // March was a very busy month for all of … more →
Apraxia Monday: Part 2 of Reading with CAS
wrote 11 months ago: By Leslie Lindsay Last week, we chatted about why it may be more difficult for our kiddos with CAS t … more →
Getting Started with Penfriend
wrote 12 months ago: A significant benefit of Penfriend is that you can start using it without any prior knowledge … more →
Have your say and win a Penfriend XL Portable!
wrote 1 year ago: You could win a Penfriend XL Portable in our prize draw. Penfriend is loved and used by thousands of … more →
On boys, books and reading and the lure of the great wide world
wrote 1 year ago: ”To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the mi … more →
Differentiated intervention for young reading disabled and dyslexic students
wrote 1 year ago: Young students have reading and learning difficulties for different reasons. Their interventions n … more →
The causes of reading difficulties in young readers
wrote 1 year ago: In order to learn to read, young readers need to bring together several areas of knowledge. These … more →
Penfriend Version 4.1 available to download
wrote 1 year ago: Penfriend Version 4.1 Penfriend is delighted to announce that Version 4.1 is ready to download. Penf … more →
Homophone support in Penfriend Version 4.1
wrote 1 year ago: What is a homophone? Homophones, sometimes known as ‘confusables’ are words which have a similar sou … more →
Penfriend's Screen Reader
wrote 1 year ago: Using Penfriend’s Screen Reading with Word’s Look Up, Synonyms and Spell Checking featur … more →
Video Case Studies
wrote 1 year ago: Penfriend supporting young people with dyslexia – a case study As well as the diverse case stu … more →
Screen Reading, the Clipboard and High Contrast settings
wrote 1 year ago: Penfriend’s powerful Screen Reader Penfriend features a powerful screen reading option which r … more →
Free Penfriend lexicons - supporting emergent literacy
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wrote 1 year ago: Penfriend would like to thank Andrew Lysley at the Ace Centre for kindly allowing us to use and dist … more →
Penfriend; online word processors and social networking
wrote 1 year ago: Get online with Penfriend! As well as standard word processors and text editors such as Microsoft Wo … more →
Making customised Abbreviations in Penfriend
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wrote 1 year ago: Getting started In Penfriend you can create Abbreviations by selecting ‘View’ on the Prediction wind … more →
Typing numbers and minimising Penfriend's Prediction window
wrote 1 year ago: There might be occasions when you are using Penfriend and you want Penfriend to stop predicting word … more →
Dear parent: why your dyslexic child struggles with reading
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wrote 1 year ago: In a letter to parents of children with reading problems, Maryanne Wolf explains how dyslexic childr … more →
Making health information crystal clear
wrote 4 years ago: Crystal Clear MSD Health Literacy Awards 2009 Health literacy – a person’s ability to read an … more →
