Tech Bloomers

print them out. It’s made a huge difference to me. It’s made me achieve things I only dreamt of. I used to have a teacher, she’s passed away now and one day she said to me.

‘You’re going to do your Maths GCSE ( General Certificate of Secondary Education ) .’ I said, ‘No I’m not. Don’t be silly.’ I didn’t think I could do anything like that. Studying was so difficult because I had to rely on someone to type everything into a computer for me. But that’s changed now.

I can do it myself with my voice. Kim, who is the Assistive Technologist at my school, introduced me to Dragon Dictate and it has opened up the world to me. Kim showed me how to train it to understand my voice, it took a few hours. Now I use it in class and at home as well.

It has made me more independent and I am now able to study on my own. So now I’m doing my Maths GCSE. I know my teacher will be proud of me.