Academic Success Center

Read&Write is a discreet, customizable toolbar that integrates reading, writing, studying, and research support tools with common applications.

Some features include:

• Hear web pages and documents read aloud to improve reading comprehension, with choice of natural voices
• Understand unfamiliar words with text and picture dictionaries
• Develop writing skills with word prediction and a grammar, spelling and confusable words checker
• Text reading in quality computerized voices;
• Editing tools such as a spell checker, word predictor, dictionary, word wizard thesaurus, and a "sounds like" tool that helps users determine if they've chosen the correct homophones in their writing;
• An MP3 converter to convert text into files for later playback in an MP3 player;
• A pronunciation tutor, fact finding tool, fact mapping graphic organizer tool;
• A voice dictation tool for writing assistance; and
• A floating toolbar that allows users to access Read&Write from within other programs such as word processing programs or .pdf reader programs.

First, Visit the Download Read&Write page on my.erikson to download the software. (link below)

Then, visit the Read&Write company website for detailed Getting Started guides and help documents. (links below)