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The new release of Kurzweil 3000 v4.0.
Hello everyone:
This message comes to you from Kurzweil Educational Systems, regarding the new release of Kurzweil 3000 v4.0.
Since our policy is to provide a free upgrade to anyone who buys Kurzweil 3000 within 3-months of the date we announce a new release--in this case on October 20th, 1999, any customer who puchased Kurzweil 3000 v3.1 on or after July 23rd, 1999, is entitled to this new release free of charge. Naturally, you must have registered your Kurzweil 3000 with Kurzweil Educational Systems. If you are not sure, please contact Kim Hunt (kimh@lhsl.com ) who handles that side of things for us. You can also call her at 1-781-203-5038.
This new release contains many new features and improvements, all of which are listed below:
NEW L&H Kurzweil 3000 Version 4.0 Features
L&H RealSpeak text-to-speech (TTS):
Quite possibly the clearest most human-sounding synthetic speech in the world, L&H RealSpeak sets the standard by which other speech engines are judged. Based on concatenation algorithms where actual human voice segments are stored and used to create speech.
Book Review: Person-Centered Planning and Outcome Management
Just Published!
Person-Centered Planning and Outcome Management
Maximizing Oraanizational Effectiveness in Supporting
Quality Lifestyles Among People With Disabilities
by
Jane M. Everson and Dennis H. ReidA new and exciting way for supporting people with developmental disabilities in identifying and realizing their most important hopes and dreams is person-centered planning. This newly published book describes in realistic terms how human service agencies can become person-centered by using the component steps of outcome management. Step-by-step supervisory and clinical strategies are described for managing human service agencies and staff performance to ensure agency consumers attain quality outcomes that they and their families truly desire.
Chapter Contents Include ...
Overview of person-centered planning and outcome management ... Preparing agencies for person-centered planning ... Determining valued consumer and agency outcomes ... Specifying agency and staff actions to support consumers in attaining person-centered outcomes ... Training quality work skills to staff ... Monitoring staff actions and attainment of consumer outcomes ... Positive management support for motivating and maintaining quality staff work performance ... Corrective management support for changing and improvising staff performance ... Overcoming common obstacles for incorporating person-centered planning in typical agenciesSPECIAL HIGHLIGHTS
Real-life case illustrations of successful applications of person-centered planning in human service agencies * An agency self-assessment instrument for evaluating its own decree of person-centeredness - An objective look at how and why some human service agencies have failed in their attempts to adopt a person-centered way of doing business *
Money Back Guarantee
If not satisfied with the book, simply return it undamaged within 30 days for a full refund
ISBN 0-9645562-2-7 LCCN 99-73273 Published 1999 12 Chapters Index Selected References
TO ORDER
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