Dyslexia

Ginger Software provides a life-changing experience for people that suffer from dyslexia. It enables them to independently write error-free text for the first time in their lives. Ginger has proved to be the best text correction product available for people with dyslexia today. Tested on real-life texts, written by people with dyslexia, it demonstrated a significantly high accuracy level of spelling error correction, far surpassing all other dyslexia tools that are currently available on the market. With the help of Ginger, children and adults with learning difficulties can, for the first time ever, compose comprehensible, error-free texts in English all on their own.
Ginger is a partner of the International Dyslexia Association (IDA).
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Ginger Software’s Spelling and Grammar Checker for Dyslexia

• Contextual spelling correction – Ginger’s revolutionary technology was developed specifically to correct the kinds of spelling mistakes commonly generated by people with dyslexia. Traditional and common spell checkers are unable to correct the creative spelling errors that people with dyslexia make. Ginger’s unique technology makes it the most powerful spell checker on the market today. Based on context and phonetic word similarity, Ginger automatically corrects spelling mistakes, even the most unusual ones. Ginger corrects errors such as phonetic spelling mistakes (e.g., fizix → physics), unusual spelling mistakes (e.g., artside → outside), split/merged words (e.g., break through → breakthrough and togather → to gather), consecutive nouns (tickets office → ticket office), as well as missing spaces.
• Misused words correction - Misused words are legal words in English (words that exist in the English dictionary) but are used in the wrong context. Ginger identifies and automatically corrects every misused word based on the context of the entire sentence. E.g., the same real-word mistake “reed” will have a different correction in each of the following sentences:

  I lick to reed books. → I like to read books.
  I lick to reed my bike → I like to ride my bike.

• Grammar correction – Ginger is an extremely unique tool in the sense that it corrects a significantly large variety of grammatical mistakes. It successfully detects and corrects errors in categories such as verb tenses, prepositions, adjective/adverb usage, and more. For example:

  He's laughing on me! → He's laughing at me!
  Aren't she go home? → Isn't she going home?
  He didn't suggested it. → He didn't suggest it.

• Automatic correction – Ginger corrects entire sentences in a single click. The user does not need to select the spelling or grammar correction from a list of alternatives or confirm the correction for each word.
• Dictionary definitions and sample expressions - A list of alternatives is provided for each correction. The user can click any grammar or spelling correction to get explanations for the correction. The explanations include dictionary definitions and sample expressions for the original word the user used and for Ginger’s correction, as well as for any alternative correction.
• Audio Assistance - With Ginger, people who suffer from dyslexia can use the audio assistance integrated into the software. Ginger reads aloud text files, emails and websites in a high quality human voice. Ginger can also provide speech feedback on any written English text so that people with dyslexia and other learning disabilities can hear how their work sounds when read aloud.
  Ginger highlights the current word as it reads. The user can select the voice, speed, and accent (US/UK) of the speech.
• Display adjustment – Ginger allows users to adjust the display settings to their needs. The user can modify the colors, font size, font type, line spacing, and more.
• Easy to use – Ginger is very easy to use. With a click of a button, Ginger reviews the entire text, and corrects full sentences automatically.
• Learning from mistakes - With Ginger, people with dyslexia are able to learn from past mistakes by identifying their most frequent errors and tracking their improvement over time. Ginger provides personalized reports to help people who suffer from dyslexia and clearly maps out the most common dyslexia spelling and grammar mistakes as well as misused words and their corrections.

Dyslexic Children as well as adults wrote about their experience with Ginger:

• "I downloaded Ginger last night and could not go to bed. I just wanted to keep on writing with it", Gabrielle, 10 yr old dyslexic
• "Ginger thinks like a dyslexic", Robin, Parent Advocate

How Ginger works

Ginger was developed primarily for helping people with dyslexia. People who suffer from dyslexia to any extent have difficulties to identify errors in texts they produce. A common characteristic among people with dyslexia is the difficulty with spelling. Moreover, people with dyslexia often misspell words in a severe and unusual manner. Common spell checkers on the market are typically designed for mainstream users whose writing mistakes consist of typos or common misspellings. Therefore, traditional spelling tools are not able to correct many of the mistakes made by people with dyslexia.

Experts in the field of natural language processing (NLP) in collaboration with statisticians, language specialists, software engineers, and educators, developed a cutting edge text-correction algorithm that automatically analyzes the context of errors in written English, and selects the most appropriate semantic and grammatical correction. Ginger can recognize the intended meaning of even extremely unusual misspelled words and provide the accurate correction.