About the author
Martin McKay founded Texthelp in 1996 to help people with communication difficulties. What started as a company focused on people with profound Speech and Dexterity Disabilities has become a world-leading Education Technology company providing easy to use, and useful software tools that help everyone read, write and communicate with clarity in education, at work and in life. Over that time he has built, led and directed a team of engineers to deliver technology that is used by millions of people every day around the world. He regards himself as incredibly fortunate to work in a sector that has such a positive impact on society using technologies that are so fun and compelling to work with. Most importantly of all, Proactively, we have been working hard to connect
Martin and Texthelp believe that everyone is entitled to
Big Data and Personalised Learning in a way that’s
the best possible learning and language support on their
meaningful, practical, and widely available for teachers.
own personal journey – from literacy to life. Martin is
WriQ, our latest innovation, is our mission to develop a
currently serving in an advisory capacity on the Universal
tangible metric for writing and a management system that
Design for Learning council in the US.
allows educators to track progress, encouraging students to express their ideas and thoughts in written form. As WriQ gains more and more users, we’re able to create an enormous data set to robustly establish the WriQ score as a standardised norm for assessing writing. Ultimately,
At Texthelp, we believe that literacy is every student’s
it allows teachers to understand, improve and progress
passport to success. That’s why we’ve created a range
the written communication skills of their learners, while
of user-friendly support technologies to help learners
also taking away the manual time-consuming work
understand content and read and write fluently. Our
involved with scoring things like vocabulary, grammar,
leading assistive software is used by English Language
text maturity, and correct word sequences.
Learners (ELL) and special needs students, worldwide.
But actually getting students to a point where they are
Read&Write Family is a suite of literacy-focused software
confident to undertake and improve on their work in
which gives confidence to all students. It makes web
class is what Read&Write is fundamentally designed to
and computer files more accessible – from reading on-
do. It gives learners the tools to focus on and develop
screen text to helping students research, write and check
vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension. This, in
everyday written work.
turn, can help us to further establish key improvements
Windows, Mac, iPad and Android and in Google.
and areas to develop, immediately specific to teaching and learning - and it continues a trend of personalising
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learning through data on a global scale.
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