Talking Word Processor and Flexible Authoring Tool

IntelliTalk  is an innovative and award-winning word processor that allows students to combine graphics, text, and speech to support and enhance writing and communication skills. It includes special features that promote comprehension, reinforce concepts, and provide a multi-sensory writing environment for all learners.

IntelliTalk  is also an excellent authoring tool, ideal for creating curriculum activities. Even better, you can easily modify activities for English language learners or any student struggling with reading or writing. And you don't have to start from scratch: IntelliTalk  includes a number of predesigned activities. Teacher-created text can be locked on the screen, allowing students to benefit from story-starters, informational text, and on-screen worksheets.

Classroom Applications
With IntelliTalk, you can track students' activity responses and quiz answers, and then record, report, and print student records for student assessment. IntelliTalk tracks each student's performance in his or her own private portfolio, records student responses, compares them to expected answers, and makes their scoring results available in both detailed and summary reports.

Builds Independent Writers
Students soon become their own editors as they listen to and correct their work. Text can be read back to the student—a word, a sentence, or a page at a time, allowing them to hear if they have left out or misspelled a word. Graphics from IntelliTalk's picture library or student's own graphics can be added to documents, providing support for beginning readers and enhancing quizzes and student reports.

Students can also access Spell Check, change font sizes and colors, hear text read aloud, erase, save or print with the touch of a single key. An onscreen alphabet is available to focus students' attention on the screen.

Features

• Full student portfolio management—from student log-in and assignment systems, to answer-tracking, to storing and printing records, to performance assessment
• Instant authoring capabilities with varied templates, sample activities, and tutorials
• Customizable toolbars to work in a WYSIWYG environment with drag-and-drop functionality
• Locked text for creating worksheets
• Onscreen alphabet, graphics, and word banks
• Spell check with auditory aid
• Auditory feedback for letters, words, sentences
• Ability to add recorded speech—great for ESL/ELL
• Easy ability to change fonts, sizes, and colors
• Expandable graphics libraries
• Integrated Word Prediction to assist in writing fluency
• Embedded Help for ongoing and immediate support
• Tracking of individual student access needs and setting preferences across the three tools
• Optional Supplementary Access Kit (Overlays and Access Guide for IntelliKeys^®)
• Network and Mac OS X compatibility

Universal Access
The concept of Universal Design—that all students, regardless of physical and learning differences, have access to our products—has been a long-standing philosophy that guides IntelliTools' software and hardware innovations. Our programming environments enable our software to feature speech output, single-switch scanning, and automatic sending of IntelliKeys overlays in addition to access by a standard keyboard, mouse or touch-screen. Our products also meet the accessibility requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act.

Testimonials
"IntelliTalk II is a lead program for curriculum access. I use it create activities in all content areas that keep students with disabilities up to speed with their nondisabled peers. The amazing thing is that activities created with IntelliTalk II end up working for all the students in the class! IntelliTalk II is the one program in my technology toolbox that I could not be without!" Cathy Tamburello, Verona, NJ

Windows System Requirements
Operating System: Win 98, ME, 2000, XP
Minimum RAM: Win 98 and ME - 64MB RAM; Win 2000 and Win XP - 128MB RAM
HD Space Required: 880MB (Player 160MB) hard drive space plus QuickTime Player installed; 100MB optional media resources
Minimum Processor: Pentium 233MHz
Minimum Display: 16 bit hi colors 1024x768 (800x600 Student users only)
Required Software: Overlay Maker 3 required to create IntelliKeys overlays
CD-ROM: Required
Sound Card: Required
IntelliKeys Required: No
Mouse Accessible: Yes
Switch Accessible: Yes
Runs from CD: No

Macintosh System System Requirements
Operating System: OS 8.6, 9.x, 10.1 or higher
Minimum RAM: 32 MB available RAM
HD Space Required: 880MB (Player 160MB) hard drive space plus QuickTime Player installed; 100MB optional media resources
Minimum Computer: iMac/G3 333MHz
Minimum Display: thousands colors 1024x768 (800x600 Student users only)
Required Software: Overlay Maker required to create IntelliKeys overlays (Mac OS X without Classic requires Overlay Maker 3; IntelliPics files cannot be imported). Mac OS X with Classic can import IntelliPics files
CD-ROM: Required
Sound Card: Required
IntelliKeys Required: No
Mouse Accessible: Yes
Switch Accessible: Yes
Runs from CD: No