DS is using an iPad now, before that he used a Mac laptop. I'll list what I can remember from each!
iPad apps:
scanning - JotNot
writing on PDF files - "Type on PDF"
notes - Notability
math - can't remember the name of these apps!
word processing - Pages
presentations - Keynote
voice-to-text - Dragon
Mac laptop:
math - Efofex (ds didn't need this until pre-Algebra)
word processing - MSWord
presentations - PowerPoint
notes - didn't bother with them - and that's not a special brand of software
scanning - uses a Doxie portable scanner, scanned docs to pdf
writing on PDF files - used Adobe Pro
math - ran Efofex on the Math using Parallels software to run Windows
voice-to-text - Dragon (not Dragon Pro, just basic Dragon)
word prediction - CoWriter
Note: ds used Adobe Pro on the Mac simply because I already had a license and it's extremely flexible re editing pdf files. I think there are other less expensive options available.
To be honest, ds loves his iPad and even though there are a few things he hasn't figured out how to do on it yet, I doubt he'll ever go back to using the laptop at school. I've also loved the iPad because apps are rapidly developing that make using it easy for dysgraphic folks, apps are very inexpensive compared to typical software packages for the laptop, and it seems to be something that doesn't stick out and define him as "different" as much as his laptop did.
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