Route 66 Literacy Is Truly Different.

Several for-profit players exist with well-established brands and long histories of providing reading tools for disabled students, but none compare strategically with Route 66 Literacy. Here are the facts:

• Although each competitor offers products with individually useful features, none offer the comprehensive set of instructional tools provided through Route 66 Literacy.
• Few, if any, offer Internet delivery and none provide the type of high-interest content that is available through Route 66 Literacy.
• The few available on-line learning tools either require the user to already know how to read and write or use a variety of multimedia tools to bypass the individual’s limited skills.
• In many cases, competing products — through the use of symbols, voice recognition and other mechanisms — simply supply tools that enable students with disabilities to by-pass the reading and writing demands while performing basic tasks.

While helping students participate more actively in society, these tools unfortunately do not improve literacy. Finally, and perhaps most significantly, existing solutions fail to provide adequate support to instructors of students with developmental disabilities. Route 66 Literacy’s Teacher Tutor is a revolutionary and much needed concept in this area, providing proven instruction to the learner while simultaneously supporting teachers, tutors, parents and other volunteers.

A critical benefit of the core technology applied by Route 66 Literacy is its web-based delivery, offering truly universal accessibility. Route 66 Literacy goes beyond current delivery standards, interfacing with existing screen reading tools, Braille translators and alternative input devices. With built-in access features for persons with the most significant physical impairments, no external hardware or software is required. These individuals will use their own micro-switches to scan and select any hotspot on the screen, move up or down, and navigate throughout the site.