To keep going on the progressively more expensive options…

Particularly if he is using a joystick mouse.  He should consider smartlists from AHF.  http://ahf-net.com/smart_lists.htm

The idea is that he will not have to traverse as much distance with each click, since when he clicks on a given letter, the smart list will appear under the mouse, vs. having to traverse back and forth across the keyboard.  Most expensive option so far but also offers a 30 day demo.  To echo Margaret, if he really is dependent on it, it may be worth the $529 investment.

If possible, he really should cycle through all of the different software progressively using each 30 day demo before he settles on an investment.

The same company offers Soothsayer word prediction which is quite comparable to the goq link that Antoinette cited.  Just to also add that you have to change an option to have GoQ display horizontally vs vertically.

Ed Hitchcock OT/L

Technology Center

Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago

Wivik is relatively pricey ($350), but it has excellent word completion and word prediction…

If this person is depending on it for communication and needs real rate enhancement, it may be worthwhile to make the investment.  (A 30 day demo is available if you want to check it out.)

http://www.wivik.com/

Margaret Cotts

Another possibility is Penfriend

http://www.penfriend.biz/pf-xp.html

This is probably a bit more expensive, but the USB key version has a portable lexicon can may prove useful

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