Spell+checker

1. **Who needs this assistive technology?**

This assistive technology is useful to everyone, whether they have a disability or not. Everyone needs a little spell check in their life. It is especially helpful for the poor spellers, because it saves them time and the embarassment of a document full of errors.

Spell checkers were first commonly accessible on mainframe computers in the later '[|70s]. The first spell checkers for pc's came for [|CP/M] computers in 1980. There was the idea of standalone spell check packages, but that did not last or prove to be successful. In the mid ‘80’s word processers like WordStar and WordPerfect had included spell check into their packages. Eventually the spell checkers even supported European and Asian languages. Recently, spell checking has even moved into web browsers like [|Firefox] 2.0. It has spell check assistance for content that its users write. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_checker
 * 2. What is the history of the assistive technology?**


 * 3. What benefits does the assistive technology provide?**

Spell check allows for clean work. It alleviates the problem many people have with spelling words. It also gives people that confidence to use the “bigger” word, because they have confidence that if they word is not spelled right spell checker will be there to fix it. Spell check also saves time from having to constantly look up words in the dictionary.


 * 4. How does the assistive technology work?**

"A Spell Checker is a program that scans text you have typed for misspelled words. If it finds any misspelled words, it highlights each misspelled word in turn, and offers correct spelling suggestions for the misspelling. You select the correct spelling from the list. Then, the Spell Checker program corrects the misspelling in your text with the correct spelling you selected. The spell checker does this for the each misspellings in your text. At the end of this cycle, your text is spell-proof and ready for presentation to your clients, school, boss. You may run a Spell Checker a few times on the same text as you edit the text to get successive corrections to spelling in your text as type more text."

http://www.spellcheckanywhere.com/home/What_Is_A_Spell_Checker.asp

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 * 5. Exemplary examples of how the assistive technology would be integrated into an english classroom.**

There is just the obvious one. When kids go an use a word processer program, they will have spell check readily available to them. They will be notified of mispelled words immediately, and then allowed to choose the appropriate spelling of that particular word. As perviously mentioned, spell check is beginning to be established on web broswers as well, so if a teacher wants their students to write blogs or similar type assignments, spell check will be there assisting them along the way.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spell_checker

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