Texthelp Software chosen to support special educational needs in Becta Home Access contract

Published: 09 November, 2009

Becta has recently awarded a contract to Insight Direct (UK) to provide assistive technologies on all its Home Access packages when the scheme goes national later this year. Home Access is a government programme managed by Becta. It aims to ensure that more children in state-maintained education in England have access to technology at home to support learning. To ensure that all learners are catered for, regardless of their needs, the packages available will come preloaded with a suite of assistive technology software. This has benefits not only for learners, but for their families too.

Texthelp's Read&Write Home Access Version has been chosen as the leading assistive technology software solution to support the needs of learners who have reading and writing difficulties.

The Read&Write Home Access Solution provides children and families with access tools such as text-to-speech, a phonetic talking spell checker, homophone support, a talking dictionary, and output to a sound file

Mark McCusker, CEO, Texthelp Systems adds "We are delighted to work with Becta and Insight Direct (UK) on this Home Access initiative supporting so many home learners with a variety of needs. Texthelp continues to provide innovative software solutions and literary support for those with dyslexia and literacy difficulties throughout Education and the Workplace."

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