Breevy is an inexpensive software program that can dramatically reduce the number of typing keystrokes needed to type anything. It takes one unique word that you create and turns it into whatever set of words, sentences, or paragraphs you connected with it. For me, xrdbto becomes Reading Disabilities: Beating the Odds, xpe becomes Professor Emeritus of Reading Disabilities and Special Education, Queens College of CUNY. Clearly, the ability to expand one unique word into a string of meaningful words can dramatically decrease the typing burden on teachers, parents, and students with learning disabilities. Here are examples:

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In a valuable new book, Virginia W. Berninger and Beverly Wolf challenge the often heard but simplistic charge made against children with learning disabilities: They’re just not motivated. This, Berninger and Wolf argue, is often false:

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