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This mobile pen scanner requires no computer.

It even helps with reading fluency and comprehension by providing immediate definitions from the American Heritage Children's Dictionary and Thesaurus, American Heritage College Dictionary, and Roget's II Thesaurus.

Further enhancing the user experience, the natural female human voice of the ReadingPen 2 makes it pleasurable to work with.

With the privacy and visual/auditory support provided by the ReadingPen2, frustration and embarrassment disappear. Both struggling and fluent readers rapidly improve their skills in:

• Fluency.
• Vocabulary comprehension.
• Spelling.
• Pronunciation.
• Academic vocabulary.
• Grammatical structure.
• Understanding assessment instructions.

• Works with any printed text.
• Scans, defines, translates, and pronounces words from any printed material.
• Scans single words or full lines of text.
• Has an intuitive, friendly interface.
• Allows you to adjust the reading speed.
• Is easy to handle.
• Fits in a pocket.
• Has a battery status indicator, so you can recharge or replace batteries when convenient for you.
• Includes built-in speaker and headphones.
• Includes The American HeritageŽ College Dictionary, 4th edition and Roget’s II The New Thesaurus.
• Recognizes over 450,000 words.

Use the ReadingPen as your reading assistant, inside or outside the classroom. This versatile device may improve reading skills dramatically. Featuring the American Heritage Dictionary (English 4th Edition) and Roget's II Thesaurus, it provides a simple and easy way for people with reading difficulties, learning disabilities, or dyslexia to get immediate word support when they are reading. Easy to use! You run it across a line of text just as if it's a yellow highlighter.

Q: How does it read back to you?

A: It reads back the words one at a time. If you scanned several words in sequence, it says them in that same sequence. So if you scan, "The dog jumped the fence" that is exactly what you'll hear when you play back the scan.

• The voice is pleasant, not robotic.
• If you scan a sequence of numbers, it will render that as a word. So for example, scanning "123" results in "one twenty three" not "one two three."
• The ReadingPen "recognizes" one word at a time. As you scan, it optically recognizes each letter. When it comes to a space or punctuation mark, it considers that sequence of letters to be a word. It looks up the word and speaks it. This all happens so fast that for the user, it's just "scan and hear."

The ReadingPen helps with the following needs and applications:

• Dyslexia. In fact, it's often called the Dyslexia Pen.
• Reading difficulty. It's a reading assistive device.
• Repeated reading.
• ELL/ESL.
• Basic and advanced reading.
• Supplemental reading.
• Supplemental Educational Services.

How accurate is it? Answer: It's 97% accurate

How hard is it to use? Answer: If you have good dexterity, it's easy to use. How much dexterity do you need? Here's a simple test. Grab a text highlighter, and see if you can draw a straight line of highlighting in a newspaper or magazine. If so, you are good to go! If not, you are going to find the pen difficult to use.

Does it really read to you? Answer: You can't just wave it across a page and hear James Earl Jones reading the text. After you complete scanning a line or word, the pen recognizes the characters and looks up the words in its internal dictionary. It then can pronounce them in sequence.