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WordTalk was conceived and developed by Rod Macaulay of TASSC in Aberdeen.
It was noted that:
- Children with Reading and writing difficulties often benefit from having text read aloud to them. In schools, this may be done by an assistant, but the use of assistants can be expensive, and their presence might be more usefully deployed elsewhere in the class.
- Nowadays, teachers are more and more frequently creating worksheets and other classroom materials using ICT, and Microsoft Word in particular, then printing them out and handing them to the class.
Using WordTalk, resources (such as worksheets) that have been created using Microsoft Word can be read out by a computer, meaning an assistant can be helping less able children.
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