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"With Touchfire on your iPad, you can feel where the keys are and rest your fingers on the home row without accidentally triggering the touch screen. You can now type quickly, accurately and comfortably - amazing! You can even type without looking at your iPad's screen. Touchfire cushions your fingers as you type, something both touch-typists and two-finger typists appreciate. Typing on your iPad is no longer a pain. When you want Touchfire out of the way, it gets out of the way. You can quickly retract Touchfire when you want to use the entire screen. And instantly flip it back up when you want to type again. Touchfire is ultra-thin and weighs less than an ounce. It attaches magnetically to the inside of the iPad cover and folds with the cover, so you can always keep Touchfire on your iPad without it getting in the way."

"Custom Solutions has been in business since 1996, originally under the name Computers for Learning. We began by providing assistive technology consulting services to schools and organizations in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, along with supporting software and online services. Through our experiences in consulting, we have developed additional products and services that we are offering to the general public. For instance, anyone who is interested in testing or improving their typing speed is welcome to try out our Custom Typing Training online typing tutor, or our ProveMySpeed.com"

"Fleksy is a state-of-the-art text input system so powerful that you can type without even looking at the screen. For the first time ever, sighted, visually impaired and blind people are able to quickly and easily type on touch screen phones and tablets. "

"Write or Die is a web application that encourages writing by punishing the tendency to avoid writing. Start typing in the box. As long as you keep typing, you're fine, but once you stop typing, you have a grace period of a certain number of seconds and then there are consequences."

"Click-N-Type is an on-screen virtual keyboard designed to provide computer accessibility to anyone with a disability that prevents him or her from typing on a physical computer keyboard. As long as the physically challenged person can control a mouse, trackball, touch screen or other pointing device, this adaptive software keyboard allows you to send keystrokes to virtually any Windows application or DOS application that can run within a window. "

"Type with your voice. Dictation turns your Google Chrome into a speech recognition app. You can use your Google Chrome as a voice recognition app and type long documents, emails and essays without touching the keyboard. The app is integrated with Dropbox and Google Drive so you can easily export you transcribed text to your cloud accounts. Or your can send the text to your email address."

"Text input via speech. Typing without a keyboard now very easy! You say - he writes! A new approach to the input texts on the computer. All you need is a microphone and the correct pronunciation. Voicenote - increasingly popular application for Google Chrome™. It allows typing on a computer, by dictating text to the microphone."

Assistive Technology The term assistive technology encompasses a broad range of devices from "low tech" (e.g., pencil grips, splints, paper stabilizers) to "high tech" (e.g., computers, voice synthesizers, braille readers). These devices include the entire range of supportive tools and equipment from adapted spoons to wheelchairs and computer systems for environmental control. Assistive technology certainly includes computers, but it also refers to a number of other types of accommodations and adaptations which enable individuals with disabilities to function more independently. Computers are an important type of assistive technology because they open up so many exciting possibilities for writing, speaking, finding information, or controlling an individual's environment. But computers are not the only avenues to solving problems through technology. There are many low tech (and low cost) solutions for problems that disabilities pose. Examples of inexpensive, low tech solutions include wrist splints, clip boards for holding papers steady, or velcro tabs to keep positioning pads in place.

"Typing with your voice. Simple and functional notepad. Title: VoiceNote II - Speech to text. Slogan: Easy typing. He writes what you say."

"The Voice typing tool in Google Docs is new and improved. For six months, you've been able to type with you voice, but today you are able to use a long list of commands to do a whole lot more. Some of the new commands include adding tables, moving around to different lines of your document, and even formatting your text to align right."

"Fleksy is an alternative keyboard with unprecedented predictive text skills. You can type a word completely wrong and it'll still figure out what you meant."

"More than another note-taking app, PhatPad turns your iPad into an advanced brainstorming tool. Draw, write, and type your ideas then instantly share them via email, WiFi sync, Dropbox, or presentation mode. PhatPad's digital ink technology and handwriting recognition engine allows you to scribble handwritten notes and drawings and convert them into digital text, or perfect geometrical shapes"

"Rather than discussing one particular app in detail, this post presents the bigger picture by discussing three different user profiles whose needs are different with regards to PDF annotation and management. Once you know what type of user you are, you can check out the overview of 10 (plus 3) apps, my personal favorites, and some thoughts on using a stylus. With all this information, finding out what app you need to annotate PDF files "your style" becomes a piece of cake."

"Offline speech recognizer for chrome. This app uses the new built in speech feature in chrome 11+ to create a useful powerful tool to use voice to do the normal typing jobs . The app is essentially an in the browser speech recognizer using which you can dictate sentences , edit the output and add them together to form paragraphs. "

" I tested three different voice-input keyboards: Jelly Bean's default (Google voice typing), Swype, and TouchPal. Each of these keyboards offers voice recognition which you can use to dictate emails, text messages, notes, and anything else you can think of. The feature is very easy to use in all these apps - simply tap the voice icon and start talking."

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"TouchChat Lite is a non-communicative configuration of TouchChat that allows for the user interface experience but does not include speech synthesis or any type of audio playback capabilities. TouchChat Lite is for iPhone and iPod users, iPad users should purchase TouchChatHD Lite for iPad."

"Apps for Handwritten Notes How many times have you been in a meeting or a conference and just wanted to jot down an ideas or sketch. You don't want to become totally distracted by typing reams but you do want to record it so it doesn't get lost. The following apps allow you to do just that. You can write with your finger or use a stylus if that is more comfortable. These apps will let you record, organise and then share these musings. Great for your classroom or students as well."

"More than another note-taking app, PhatPad turns your iPad into an advanced brainstorming tool. Draw, write, and type your ideas then instantly share them via email, WiFi sync, Dropbox, or presentation mode. PhatPad's digital ink technology and handwriting recognition engine allows you to scribble handwritten notes and drawings and convert them into digital text, or perfect geometrical shapes."