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I began writing children’s and adult’s novels and freelance articles for online magazines in early 2006. Shortly thereafter, I found that I had developed Post Polio Syndrome, a slow recurrence of the dying nerves and muscle-weakness from polio as a child. When I was first introduced to Dragon...
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In one of the school districts where I worked, I worked in small groups with individuals who needed to pass the speaking portion of the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL). This can be a very difficult test for non-native English speakers because it not only requires them to speak English in...
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I use Dictate on my iPhone and on my iPad. What is most impressive, is that Dictate lives up to the promise of technology. Technology is supposed to make our lives easier. However, very often people get the latest software and wonder how they will use it. Dictate has been very powerful for me, because...
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A Doorway to Making a Difference A vast part of the early years of my life were extremely challenging. My family life as a child was dysfunctional, destructive and difficult. As I began to grow up, much of the way I conducted myself simply made matters worse. The effect that drugs, alcohol, abuse and...
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There is a familiarity about them that is unmistakable. Each is unique as the person who wrote them. Family letters crowd my desk waiting their turn to be read. These aren’t recent letters but have postmarks dating back 10, 20, even 60 years ago or longer. All of them have been retrieved from stored...
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First, I would like to recognize and thank Ms Jeanie Moran, of the Joy A. Shabazz, Independent Living Center in Greensboro North Carolina. She is a Disability Advocate, who focuses on nursing home transition and is the individual responsible for me being introduced to Dragon Naturally Speaking. I was...
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Dragon NaturallySpeaking gave me a new life. One December 28, 1996, high blood pressure caused a vessel in in my brainstem to leak, leaving me with several disabilities, among them Cerebellum Ataxia. This condition causes the left side of my body to be clumsy. I no longer have the ability to write with...
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Dragon has totally changed my life and I can't imagine where I would be today without it. As a young girl with muscular dystrophy, I always wanted to use the typewriter, like my mom did. I didn't have use of my fingers, so my dad took pencils and taped them to my hands so that I could push the...
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I hate QWERTY. Like a lefty using ergonomically shaped right-handed scissors, the QWERTY layout was not made for me. Before 1985 I was a young hunt and pecker perfectly contented with clacking away on mothers type bar typewriter. But in the eighth grade I was reintroduced to QWERTY by Mr. Novak. A severe...
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How has Dragon changed the career of a student on the path to a professional degree? Well, this is my story; the story of a court reporting student. Long ago accurate transcripts were engraved on stone. As time moved along, so did our creative engineering and invention of tools to inscribe the voice...