FAQs

Ginger corrects an entire sentence in one click. Standard spell checkers correct only one word at a time.
For example, if you write, "fisical educson can assits in strengtning muscles", a standard spell checker requires you to perform a correction for each word in the sentence. With Ginger, a single click produces the corrected sentence: “Physical education can assist in strengthening muscles."

Ginger’s revolutionary technology was developed specifically to correct the kinds of spelling mistakes commonly made by people with dyslexia that other spell checkers do not correct. Spell checkers usually suggest words whose spelling most resembles the misspelled word; Ginger suggests words whose meaning best suits the context of the entire sentence.

The following examples are the types of mistakes often made by people with dyslexia:

• Unusual spelling, such as  becals for because, strengning for strengthening. A regular spell checker will suggest  the most similar word: becalms for becals and  stringing for strengning. Ginger will choose the right correction based on the sentence the spelling mistake appears in.
• Writing words as they sound, such as fizix for physics, enuf for enough, shoor for sure. Spell checkers suggest the most similar word based on letter similarity: fizzy for fizix, ennui for enuf, short for shoor. Ginger offers corrections whose sound is similar even if the spelling is very different, provided its meaning fits the sentence.
• Using correctly spelled words in the wrong context (misused words), such as “I wood like to” instead of “I would like to”. Most spell checkers don't detect these errors because the word wood  is correctly spelled. Some spell checkers can detect a few particular misused words. Ginger is the only spell checker that can identify and correct almost any word that is misused.
• Additional mistakes in the sentence may obscure the writer’s intended meaning, as in “I leave in the grin house” instead of “I live in the green house”.  Ginger is the only spell checker that can understand a complete sentence even when the context itself is ambiguous.

People with dyslexia often have reading difficulties and may have difficulty selecting the best correction from several options. Ginger determines the correction based on sentence context and makes the correction automatically.

Certainly! Ginger a valuable tool for anyone who wants to write better in English.
Ginger is particularly useful to speakers of English as a second or foreign language, who need help with their writing skills in English.

Ginger Premium software has all the features of the basic Ginger software, and includes a Text-to-Speech system that reads sentences aloud before and after corrections, and allows dyslexics to be certain that what they wrote is what they meant to write.

In the near future,  Ginger Premium will also include a Frequent Errors Reporting system to enable review and analysis of users’ most common mistakes, and determine the areas where help and practice are needed most. It will also include a Display Settings control panel that allows users to personalize the Ginger interface with their preferred fonts and colors.

Schools will receive a discount when purchasing multiple licenses and/or multiple-year subscriptions of Ginger. For complete pricing information, go to the Ginger Store.

Microsoft Windows XP SP2 or higher, Vista, or Windows 7. An Internet connection. Microsoft Word or Outlook, in Office 2003 or 2007 or Internet Explorer.

Ginger works with MaxWrite, the Scholastic Keys interface for Microsoft Word.

The software has been disabled because a new Ginger software version is now available.

You need to install the new Ginger software.

Perform the following steps to download and install the new Ginger:

(1) Close Microsoft Word and Outlook.

(2) Uninstall your current Ginger version:

     In Windows XP: Start > Control Panel > Add or Remove Programs > Ginger > Uninstall

     In Windows Vista:  Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features > Ginger > Uninstall

(3) Click here to download and install the NEW Ginger.

For some reason, you do not have permission to write to the folder where Ginger is normally installed.

You need to select another folder for the Ginger installation.

To receive more detailed instructions for resolving this issue, contact Ginger technical support.