Helen Ball

Helen’s sense of humour and ‘can-do’ attitude has a great knack of putting her students and colleagues at ease. Although she’d always suspected her dyslexia, receiving a positive diagnosis later in life affirmed and furthered her achievements. For Helen, nothing is insurmountable. Her own experience of the DSA system translates into making her students’ needs and strengths paramount. She is passionate about assistive technology and upholds that access to information is a human right. Helen has an array of letters after her name that make up a cool (or rude, depending on your attitude) mnemonic! (If you don’t know what a mnemonic is ask your trainer to tell you!)

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Sonority

This program is used for the Olympus Dictaphone series. It allows the user to load up their audio notes onto their computer, which they have recorded on the dictaphone. Users can edit their recordings as well as creating audio notebook files. Files recorded on their Dictaphone can be renamed as well as placed into specific folders.

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ClaroView and ScreenRuler

ClaroView and ScreenRuler are programs that change the look of your screen to make reading easier. They both come as part of the ClaroRead Plus package but can also be bought separately.