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Though assistive technology is in the camp of compensatory interventions, through the clinic what we have seen is what I call software remediation effects beginning to happen. We do see an increase in natural skills when students are using the technologies. And the ones that we see this coming out the most is our text-to-speech software, we see it in our word prediction software where a student has to type a word and the computer kind of generates a possible list of words. And so when a student has poor spelling ability, as they are kind of typing the word out, they're getting immediate feedback. The second key component to an intervention that worked was that immediate feedback. And so I think in some cases that's what our technology is doing, it is giving students immediate feedback on a regular basis and so therefore it's actually having the software remediation effect as well.