Tips for Maximizing your AT Potential with WYNN Software Accessing Higher Ground 2009 Steve Boyle 800-444-4443 Ext. 3915

Freedom Scientific Inc.


Tips for Maximizing your AT Potential with WYNN Software

Accessing Higher Ground 2009

Steve Boyle

800-444-4443 Ext. 3915

www.freedomscientific.com/lsg


Welcome

• Introduction

• Overview of WYNN

• Question and Answer Time


What Is WYNN?

• Software that provides bi-modal access to scanned text, electronic files and the Internet

• Includes tools to customize the reading environment, increase comprehension, and support writing

• Enables people to work with content that is challenging to read due to learning disabilities – such as dyslexia

• Accelerates the Learning Process• Direct, Faster Link to other information than what you are

specifically reading (online environment) Creates a richer reading environment.

• Used in educational, adult literacy, and employment settings to support struggling readers


Simplistic Approach

• Organization: Four, color-coded Tool Bars

– Blue: Blue: File Management and Internet

– Green:Green: Customize Reading Preferences

– Pink:Pink: Study Tools

– Yellow:Yellow: Writing Tools

• easy to learn, easy to teach, easy to use• WYNN’s ‘claim to fame’ Clean & crisp interface

and ease of use!


How Do You Get Info into WYNN?

Must have WYNN Wizard to:• Scan: print materials using a flat-bed scanner

• Freedom Import Printer: import a file from any application in your choice of color or black and white

With WYNN Wizard or WYNN Reader can also:• New: Create a new document

• Open: existing files or files from disk

• Go to Web: browse the Internet and bring text into WYNN


Freedom Import Printer

• Open PDF's, Word Docs, WordPerfect, HTML, text files, and many others.

• Open the file in the application and print it to theWYNN Freedom Import Printer.

• Please note: The Freedom Import Printer is only available in WYNN Wizard. This function is not available in WYNN Reader.


Modifying the Reading Environment

• Address visual processing difficulties– Size, spacing, margins, text/background color

• Address auditory processing difficulties– Rate of speech, pause between sentences, reading increments

(example of extremely fast auditory processing)

• Single click provides immediate results– Empowers user with independence and control over reading

environment

Each user’s preferences automatically saved


Study Tools – Mastering Material

• Create an active reading and studying process

• Aid in comprehension of materials

• Help with automatization – information becomes automatic– Richer reading environment

• Make reading and studying more meaningful


Studying with WYNNStudy tools now available in Text View and Exact View!

• Embed text or voice notes in the text

• Highlight main ideas and details

• Paraphrase main ideas and details

• Learn vocabulary

• Create study guides

• Create an active rich ,reading environment


Writing with WYNN

• Hear what you write, see your text in your preferred visual settings

• Style button to add bold, italics, underline attributes

• Word prediction to help keep pace with flow of ideas and with spelling

• Spell Check as You Type (misspelled words show up in blue)

• Homophone support (get definitions for homophones)

• Outlining to help with organization


Internet Access with WYNN

• Interactive bi-modal web access

• Tools to enhance focus/reduce distractions while reading Web pages

• Support for isolating and extracting key information

• Access to Web Mail and online forms


Convert to Audio (MP3)

Convert to MP3 format for listening on any MP3 player (including the Apple iPod™)

• File menu, Save to Audio

• Saves in your folder in WYNN User Files

• Copy to MP3 directory


Summary

• Enables students to actively study material• Helps students process, analyze and synthesize

information, organizing the study process• Aids in comprehension, retention, and mastery of

materials• Using the Tool earlier gives the best advantage to

the student• Students benefit, but benefits go far beyond the

disabled community.


For More Information About WYNN Contact Us At:

Freedom Scientific, Learning Systems Group

[email protected]

www.freedomscientific.com/lsg

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Tips for Maximizing your AT Potential with WYNN Software Accessing Higher Ground 2009 Steve Boyle 800-444-4443 Ext. 3915