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USING SPEAKING DYNAMICALLY PRO (SDP) FOR WINDOWS

Presenter
Terry Johnson
Mayer-Johnson, Inc.
PO Box 1579
Solana Beach, CA 92075
Phone: 858-550-0084
Fax: 858-550-0449

SDP is a software program allows you to use any classroom computer as a high powered speech output communication device. The version for Windows shares the same drawing screen as the Boardmaker program allowing you to add speech to Boardmaker files. Learn how you can use SDP and your computer to do assessments, make talking activities for inclusion, make talking communication boards and more. This presentation will give you the basics and also some of the advanced fearures of how to use Speaking Dynamically Pro.

Skills covered will in this presentation will include:

• board construction
• linking boards
• making sentence building boards
• making pop-up boards
• setting up reading boards which highlight text
• access methods
• time saving hints
• auditory scanning
• button magnification
• using paint tools
• launching programs
• writing with word prediction and abbreviation expansion
• copying and pasting buttons
• attaching a switch to abutton

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