• Customer Feedback – Vocabulary Stretch
• What’s New – Solutions: Special Education
• Resource for Teachers – Bookworm
• Grants for U.S. Educators

“I just wanted to say thank you for the great products that your company makes. I ordered Vocabulary Stretch last month, and my daughter uses it everyday. I don’t even have to remind her. She feels it has been very helpful. My daughter is 14 going into the 8th grade. She has learning disabilities, dyslexia being the main one. It does me good to see her smile, and for her to feel good about herself,” says J.S., a home user, about Merit Software’s Vocabulary Stretch.

Vocabulary Stretch helps students gain strategies for recognizing words in different contexts. Students match vocabulary to ideas and learn origins of many words.

For a complete software description or to try the downloadable evaluation version, go to:
http://www.meritsoftware.com/software/vocabulary_stretch/

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Merit Software has created Solutions: Special Education. These carefully bundled programs benefit students struggling with communication, organization, and problem solving.

Solutions: Special Education allows remedial learners to improve at an individual pace. Text and graphics will appeal to both school age and adult students.

Find out more at: http://www.meritsoftware.com/solutions/special_ed_learning_disabilities/index.htm

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Yahoo! Games offers Bookworm. This free, online word game encourages students to link letters and build words. Definitions for tricky words are provided onscreen.

Visit: http://games.yahoo.com/games/downloads/bw.html

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MissionFish, a program for charity listings on eBay, helps schools and non-profit organizations raise money. Registrants may fill in a form for a free database listing on MissionFish. Funds may be used for the purchase of educational technology.

Go to: http://www.missionfish.org

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