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multiple file types, while ensuring that proper document text formatting is
shown on the braille display to the student, KeyWord serves as an extremely
productive and powerful tool for reading and writing documents in or out of
the classroom.
A new feature that is unique to the BrailleNote, and serves as a useful
braille instructional tool, is its Symbol Selector. When learning Unified
English Braille, if the BrailleNote user does not know the proper UEB symbol,
they can perform a single command while still in their document and
reference UEB symbol categories, such as punctuation, letters and numbers,
etc. Upon selecting a category, they can learn frequently used UEB symbols
and their associated dot combinations. Both the symbol names and dot
combinations are available to the student or teacher in both speech and
braille, as well as visually when the BrailleNote is connected to a monitor.
This multimodal access to UEB symbols has proven to be an efficient method
of introducing and learning the various symbols or changes in UEB.
Mathematics
The United States has currently adopted to integrate the joint use of
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