This week we shine the spotlight on Mike Bednarski, our customer of the week! As a 12 year-old with dyslexia, Mike has struggled with writing and reading comprehension for years. In his story from last year’s I Speak Dragon contest, he attributes his newly-found confidence to Dragon software and says he feels he has now [...]
Posts Tagged ‘learning disabilities’
Customer of the Week – Mike Bednarski!
Posted in Customer of the Week, Dragon Dictate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, tagged Customer of the week, Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon Dictate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, I Speak Dragon, learning disabilities, speech recognition, voice recognition, writing on April 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Customer of the Week – Karen Howes!
Posted in Customer, Customer of the Week, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, tagged Customer of the week, Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, learning disabilities, productivity, speech recognition on March 19, 2012 | 1 Comment »
This week, we shine the spotlight on Karen Howes, our customer of the week! Karen is a Special Needs teacher working with students at the Bournedale Elementary School in Massachusetts. She first became familiar with Dragon NaturallySpeaking when trying to find an alternative solution for one of her students, Jackleen, who had difficulty writing and [...]
Ask the Dictator – Kids Using Dragon
Posted in Ask the Dictator, tagged Ask the Dictator, assistive technology, Dragon blog, Dragon Dictate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, Kids using Dragon, learning disabilities, speech recognition, voice recognition, writing on December 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This week on Ask the Dictator, Peter “The Dictator” Mahoney answers some common questions that people have about kids using Dragon. Check it out here: If you have a topic that you’d like to suggest for a future episode, let us know right here in the comments, or better yet, go to our Ask [...]
Ask the Dictator: Episode 48 – Nuance Joins the Liberated Learning Consortium
Posted in Ask the Dictator, tagged Ask the Dictator, assistive technology, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, learning disabilities, Nuance, speech recognition, voice recognition, voice writing on October 6, 2011 | 1 Comment »
In this week’s episode of “Ask the Dictator”, Peter discusses the recent news that Nuance has joined the Liberated Learning Consortium, (LLC), an international group of technology providers, colleges and universities working to advance information accessibility in higher education through the use of speech recognition technology. Nuance joins IBM as the second technology company to [...]
Changing Lives
Posted in Dragon Dictate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, tagged assistive technology, Changing People's Lives Conference, Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon Dictate, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, learning disabilities, speech recognition, universal design, voice recognition on September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This last week, I had the opportunity to speak at a very special conference in Boston called Products & Technologies that Change People’s Lives (http://www.changepeopleslives.org/). The conference was hosted by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and the Institute for Human Centered Design (http://www.adaptenv.org). The plenary session included Governor Deval Patrick, Lieutenant Governor Tim Murray, Secretary of [...]
Customer of the Week – Zach!
Posted in Contest, Customer, Customer of the Week, tagged Contest, Customer of the week, Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, learning disabilities, speech recognition, voice recognition, voice writing, writing on May 23, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Today, we’d like to shine the “Customer of the Week” spotlight on one of our many I Speak Dragon contestants. Check out Zach’s story below, and read more contest entries here! (You can even rate your favorites). I guess my story with Dragon began when I was in second grade and was diagnosed with both [...]
Dragon Speech Recognition in Education
Posted in Education, Webinars, tagged Dragon, Dragon blog, Dragon NaturallySpeaking, Education, learning disabilities, speech recognition, voice recognition, voice writing on February 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A lot of folks know that Dragon provides an alternative to the keyboard for students with physical challenges. What you may not know, however, is that Dragon can also help ESL and ELL students, as well as students with various learning disabilities make huge leaps forward in reading, writing and spelling. Tune in on Thursday, February [...]
