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Braille Planet (formerly Raised Dot Computing)
408 South Baldwin Street
Madison, WI 53703
Phone: 800-347-9594, FAX: 608-257-4143
E-mail: davidh@brailleplanet.org or cnavy@execpc.com
Website: http://www.brailleplanet.org/
MegaDots braille translation software with Baby Nemeth and separate advanced Nemeth Translator.

Duxbury Systems, Inc.
435 King St.
P.O. Box 1504
Littleton, MA 01460
Phone: 978-692-3000, FAX: 978-486-9712
E-mail: info@duxsys.com
Website: http://www.duxburysystems.com
Nemeth production solutions including VISIONS Lab at Purdue University package and Nemeth translator included inside DBT.

MacKichan Software, Inc.
600 Ericksen, Suite 300
Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Phone: 1-877-SCI-NOTE
Fax: 1-206-780-2857
E-mail: sales@mackichan.com
Website: http://www.mackichan.com
With Scientific Notebook, create attractive documents with text, mathematics, and graphics, have it compute the solutions, import data from your graphing calculator, connect to the Internet and download documents, then translate to Nemeth Code and/or convert to large print. See MAVIS.

Mathematics Accessible to Visually Impaired Students (MAVIS)
Chris Weaver, MAVIS Program Coordinator
New Mexico State University
Math Department MSC 3MB
P.O. Box 30001
Las Cruces, NM 88003
Phone:(505) 646-2664
Fax: (505) 646-1064
Email: chrweave@nmsu.edu
Website: http://www.nmsu.edu/~mavis
Nemeth Code filter that translates Scientific Notebook documents containing mathematics to Nemeth Code. "The fast production of Scientific Notebook files on a Braille embosser means that visually impaired students can obtain class handouts, syllabi, exams, and other course materials in the sciences in real time. And it means that institutions can comply more easily with federal disability regulations." (see MacKichan Software, Inc.)

Metroplex Voice Computing
P.O Box 121984
Arlington, TX 76012
Phone: (817) 261-1658
Fax: (817) 543-1103
E-mail: mathtalk@onramp.net
Website: http://www.metroplexvoice.com
Speech recognition software products including several mathematics programs.

• MathTalkProTM - runs Scientific NotebookTM with over 2,000 voiced commands. MTP is for all levels of math. Scientific Notebook includes MapleTM and graphing capabilities. For more details on Scientific Notebook, see www.mackichan.com MathTalkPro will be available with an optional Nemeth Code Converter© that translates the mathematics into Braille.
• MathBrailleTalkTM - allows teachers/transcribers of the visually impaired to voice mathematics using the new Duxbury Braille TranslatorTM. The voiced text and mathematics emboss and/or print in Braille, thus saving time and hundreds of keystrokes per lesson, as well as, relieving the teacher of remembering all of those keystrokes.

Source: Susan A. Osterhaus, Teaching Math to Visually Impaired Students Home Page, Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Austin, Texas.

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