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I believe that this product has a lot to offer to students with Dyslexia, however the initial training programme is not Dyslexic friendly and involves a lot of teacher input. I believe that with some minor adjustments this programme could have a lot to offer students with reading and writing difficulties.

Dragon Naturally Speaking would not be suitable for mainstream classes because of the need for students to speak out loud. However as a personal support tool to be used at home and in learning support it could be very beneficial.

A normal class period was forty minutes which allowed students to complete part of the training programme and to discuss or raise any problems encountered. The programme also gave users the option of saving or pausing training during use.
Following general training and tutorials students were required to produce work via Dragon Naturally Speaking. This included a formal letter and a review or report. It took both students a number of attempts to complete the letter to a satisfactory standard but this was an essential part of becoming fluent in programme use.

Both students were enthusiastic to trial this product and once they had mastered basic voice commands were able to work at an independent level. However, initially both students found it unusual to speak aloud into a microphone in complete sentences including using punctuation commands.