Re: [school-discuss] Home school for dyslexic students

[Dirk Schouten <d.schouten@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi Laura,
Look for Knoppix and Adriane
http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-adriane/index-en.html
Look for eBook-speaker and daisy-player
http://jlemmens.nl
Daisy-player is incorporated in Adriane and 
eBook-speaker will be incorporated soon. We are 
looking for better voices than espeak. Sounds horrible 
IMHO. I'm visually impaired.

Website@School is also usable by blind or visually 
impaired.

Kind regards,
Dirk

Our Open Source projects for schools:
- Website@School (Content Management Learning System):
  Main site: http://websiteatschool.eu
  Manual (latest versions): http://wyxs.net/web/was/
- Digital interactive whiteboard for  99,95:
  DIY: http://wyxs.net/web/wiiscan/
  Non-DYI: http://onsbord.nl
- ServerAtSchool (Server-client system):
  http://serveratschool.net
  ServerAtSchool Dutch site:
  http://serveropschool.nl
- Association "Schools Together Rich with ICT" (STRICT)
  http://strict.nu

Media Action Projects: Sold out. See free PDF
On the use of media in education
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/schoutdi/
Now also translated in Japanese
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LM wrote:
> I'll throw out one more idea on the topic and perhaps we can do some
> brainstorming.  There are some Linux distributions for visually
> disabled users.  Perhaps some of their tools or even the entire
> distributions would be useful for dyslexic users too.
>
> At one point, I did some checking into what it would take to make
> systems more user friendly for visually disabled users.  Didn't get
> very far.  I did find a discussion on the possibility of enabling INX
> (an all command line distribution) for visually impaired users.  I
> believe there was a mention of using command line tools and doing a
> tee to espeak.  I found a FreeBSD podcast by a blind user on how he
> worked with FreeBSD.  There's also a mailing list for visually
> impaired users.  I remember posting a few questions to it at one
> point.  I had read from certain sources that it was easier to take a
> command line/console based system and make them accessible.  However,
> when I asked questions on the mailing list, some of the users found
> certain GUI based applications even easier to work with than the
> command line ones.  It would be nice to check into some of the
> techniques these types of distributions use and see how easy it would
> be to enable.  Would really like to see an article at the Schoolforge
> wiki on tips for making applications and operating systems more
> friendly for those with visual (or other) impairments.
>
> I'm also curious if there have been any studies on dyslexia and
> learning through games.  What types of games would be the most
> effective from an educational sense?  I've been looking at the code
> for some Open Source SDL based educational games.  It might not be
> that hard to add a few system calls to espeak in the games or play
> some wave files with voices recorded.  Most games are already enabled
> with sound effects.  Why not add some words in as well?  I can't help
> wondering how many Open Source games already out there might be easy
> to make a few code modifications to in order to reach a wider
> audience.  If anyone's interested in discussing or pursuing this
> further, I'd certainly be happy to look at the code for some Open
> Source applications and see what it might take to make some changes to
> them that could make them more user-friendly for users with
> disabilities.
>
> Sincerely,
> Laura
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