Dear all,

I am pleased to announce that we have now launched MakeWrite, an iPad app that was co-designed by and for people with aphasia (a language difficulty following brain injury).

The app offers an accessible way for anyone to create and share texts in English. However, you don't need to live with aphasia to try it out. Users can use existing text to make their own new piece of creative writing in four simple stages: choose, erase, arrange and share.

The project has launched it today as part of UNESCO's World Poetry Day.

This is its first release- it is a worldwide release for all iPad models, but if you are not in the UK and you experience difficulties downloading please do let us know- there should be no problems though.

Needless to say I'd personally love to see a multilingual MakeWrite, and of course one with a wider variety of source texts and an Android version too. In the meanwhile here's the first release, and as fellow DH folk I thought you'd be interested.

Link to the release on iTunes:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/makewrite/id1456271313?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/makewrite/id1456271313?mt=8

All the best,

Enresto

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