Thursday, 24 November 2011

A "friendly" spellchecker!


This spell checker can be downloaded for free from this website and runs as an add-on to Microsoft Word.  It’s surprisingly straight forward and accurate and provides a nice looking, child friendly interface.  Being specifically designed to recognise common mistakes made by people with dyslexia, I can see this being very useful as it will also speak the text too.   The spell checker can be used by placing your cursor within the sentence you want to check and simply pressing the F2 button or the ‘Ginger’ spellchecker icon in the top right hand corner of the screen.
If people like it, I'll install it on the school network and in the suite.