Dernière mise à jour : 2013-03-06

Quillsoft Ltd.

Information sur l'entreprise

Dénomination sociale :   Quillsoft Ltd.
Nom commercial :   Quillsoft Ltd.
Adresse postale 308-250 The Esplanade TORONTO, Ontario M5A 1J2	Adresse civique 308-250 The Esplanade TORONTO, Ontario M5A 1J2
Téléphone : (416) 698-0111
Téléphone sans frais : 1-866-629-6737
Télécopieur : (416) 698-1555
Courrier électronique : admin@quillsoft.ca
Site Web : http://www.goqsoftware.com/fr/

Information sur les personnes-ressources

Fraser Shein
	Titre :   President and CEO
	Téléphone :   (416) 698-0111
	Poste :   226
	Télécopieur :   (416) 698-1555
	Courrier électronique :   fshein@quillsoft.ca

Description de l'entreprise

Quillsoft (Toronto, ON) is a for-profit research and development software company incorporated in the Province of Ontario, created as a technology transfer startup from Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital. It now has worldwide reach of its WordQ and SpeakQ software products in the education and literacy field, with a focus on reading and writing. In 2010, the Province of Ontario licensed Quillsoft’s WordQ software for every school in the province. Since 2007, distribution of its products has been handled in partnership with the independent firm of Strategic Transitions Inc. (Aurora, ON). New partners (2010) under Strategic Transitions include ST4 Learning (USA); Math-et-Mots (QC); and Assistive Solutions (UK).
Exportation :	Oui
Industrie primaire (SCIAN) :	541510 - Conception de systèmes informatiques et services connexes
Activité principale de l'entreprise :	Commerce de détail

Produit / Service / Licence

Nom du produit :	SpeakQ Speech Recognition
SpeakQ plugs into WordQ and adds simple speech recognition. SpeakQ features a simple training interface where the computer prompts you by voice what to say. You can then dictate directly into any document or dictate into WordQ's prediction list. Your speech is combined with the word prediction. To keep it simple, there are no verbal commands. You only dictate text.
Nom du produit :	WordQ: le logiciel d'aide à la rédaction
Le WordQ on utilise le logiciel d’aide à la rédaction en même temps qu’un logiciel de traitement de texte standard. Le logiciel affiche une liste de mots que vous pouvez utiliser et donne une rétroaction orale. Ce logiciel peut être utile aux utilisateurs de tout âge aux prises avec des problèmes de rédaction et d’édition.
Code CFA :	AF00-Éducation

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School board backs adaptive software for all students
Promoting widespread use of assistive technology will remove stigma, encourage collaboration, improve learning

BY LOUISE KINROSS Bloorview Kids Rehab

Speech-recognition software will be available to about 35,000 students in 122 schools in Eastern Ontario this year when the Upper Canada District School Board installs SpeakQ at all of its sites.

SpeakQ – developed at Bloorview Kids Rehab – is designed for students with learning disabilities who struggle to write.

But the principal of special projects for the Upper Canada board believes all students can benefit from it.

“ We’re operating on the premise that adaptive technology is necessary for students with learning disabilities and good for all students,” says Steve McLean. “Good teaching dictates that we hit all of the learning modalities that kids need. Just because a student is doing well or moderately well doesn’t mean that they couldn’t benefit from adaptive technology. There are children other than our kids with learning disabilities who are stronger verbally than they are in a written context.”

With SpeakQ, students speak a word or phrase and see it displayed in a box on their computer screen with four alternate words or phrases that the software predicts. They can click on each word or phrase to hear it spoken before selecting the correct one and inserting it into their document.

Steve says the practice of purchasing adapted technology strictly for students with identified learning problems has been counter-productive.

“What’s generally happened across North America is that those kids have to leave their class and go to a different location to access a program on a single computer. They quickly learn that they don’t want to be identified as different.”

Making the technology uniformly available will remove this stigma and encourage collaboration. “A lot of research tells us that kids learn best from other kids, and this was a problem when Johnny could use the technology but Suzie couldn’t. That kind of sharing couldn’t take place.”