Webfooted

14:31 | 22.08.2011 PRESS RELEASE: Children’s Dyslexia Center Chooses Wizcom’s ReadingPen2 and Quicktionary TS Premium

PRESS RELEASE: Children’s Dyslexia Center Chooses Wizcom’s ReadingPen2 and Quicktionary TS Premium

Wizcom Technologies Ltd. /Children’s Dyslexia Center Chooses Wizcom’s ReadingPen2 and Quicktionary TSPremium. Processed and transmitted by Thomson Reuters ONE.The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement. Hand-held literacy support tools designed effectively to boost vocabulary,phonemic awareness, fluency and comprehension for students with Dyslexia Rosh Ha’ayin, August 22, 2011. Wizcom Technologies Ltd. (Prime Standard: WZM,IL 0010830706), the global leader in personal, portable, and powerful textscanning dictionaries, translators and Reading Pens, announced today that theChildren’s Dyslexia Center of Western Pennsylvania has chosen Wizcom’s literacysupport tools as their new support technology for 2012. The ReadingPen 2 andQuicktionary TS Premium hand-held devices will be used by children of all ages,including students transitioning to post-secondary education. “We provide assistance to children with Dyslexia, using a proven, research-based, multi-sensory approach to learn the basic language skills reading,writing, and spelling. Our goal is to help our students reach their fullpotential. Wizcom’s support technology complements our existing program andprovides our children with an additional tool helping them build confidence andbecome independent”, said Melissa Merritt, Director of New Castle Children’sDyslexia Center. By scanning text, students can see and hear words, lines or paragraphs spokenaloud in English, and are instantly provided with word definitions, synonyms,translations, spelling, and pronunciation via Text-to-Speech technology (withbuilt-in speaker or earphones) to help make reading accessible. The breakthroughliteracy support tools can be used with any classroom text, or with content-areacourses, providing special needs students with support to help them unlock thereading process. “Without specialized help, these children face serious obstacles throughouttheir school career and beyond. Multi-sensory techniques provide children withalternative ways to learn. The Reading Pen and Quicktionary are multi-sensorytools that will help our children overcome obstacles and build a foundation forlearning in and out of the classroom”, Merritt continued. Wizcom Reading and Translation Pens have been validated through research, andsupport the essential components of reading instruction, as outlined in the USNational Reading Panel’s guide,”Put Reading First: The Research Building BlocksFor Teaching Children to Read” (2001): Phonemic Awareness, Phonic, Fluency,Vocabulary, and Text comprehension. About Children’s Dyslexia Centers:For over two decades, the Scottish RiteMasons, Northern Masonic Jurisdiction, have been national leaders in the effortto help children and their families overcome the painful obstacles of dyslexia.With more than 50 active Dyslexia Centers in 13 states, the Children’s DyslexiaCenters tackle the challenge of dyslexia head-on, both by providing freetutoring for children with dyslexia and by training a growing cadre of highlyskilled and dedicated tutors.childrensdyslexiacenters.org About Wizcom: Wizcom is a pioneer and world leader in personal, portable, andpowerful text scanning Dictionaries and Reading Pens. Our breakthrough suit ofhand-held literacy support tools are used to effectively boost vocabulary,phonemic awareness, fluency and comprehension among a wide range of readinglevels and learning abilities — including those who have limited Englishproficiency and those who have been identified as learning disabled — and areutilized in thousands of 21st century classrooms throughout the U.S and aroundthe world.wizcomtech.com For further information, please contact: Wizcom Technologies Ltd.Shimon Amouyal, CEO13 Hamelacha St.Rosh Ha’ayin, 48091, IsraelTel +972-3-9103330shimona@wizcomtech.comwizcomtech.com SCHWARZ Financial CommunicationFrank SchwarzInvestor RelationsGermanyTel +49-611-1745-398-11Schwarz@schwarzfinancial.comschwarzfinancial.com — End of Message — Wizcom Technologies Ltd.13 Hamelacha St. Rosh Ha’ayin Israel WKN: 915856;ISIN: IL0010830706;Index:Prime All Share,TECH All Share;Listed: Freiverkehr in Börse Stuttgart,Freiverkehr in Börse Berlin,Freiverkehr in Börse Düsseldorf,Freiverkehr in Bayerische Börse München,Prime Standard in Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse,Regulierter Markt in Frankfurter Wertpapierbörse; Press Release as PDF:hugin.info/130210/R/1540097/470771.pdf This announcement is distributed by Thomson Reuters on behalf ofThomson Reuters clients. The owner of this announcement warrants that:(i) the releases contained herein are protected by copyright and other applicable laws; and(ii) they are solely responsible for the content, accuracy and originality of the information contained therein. Source: Wizcom Technologies Ltd. via Thomson Reuters ONE [HUG#1540097] wizcomtech.com

(END) Dow Jones Newswires

August 22, 2011 08:31 ET (12:31 GMT)

Tags: classroom text, western pennsylvania