Come have free breakfast with Disability Support Services on Tuesday, Sept. 4 from 10-11 a.m. in the Hill Student Center Alumni Theater, as they kick off the new study skills software Kurzweil 3000. Kurzweil 3000 is an assistive technology software designed to make learning easier. It serves as a study tool for students and focuses on three themes: reading, writing and mind mapping. Six UAB departments (DSS, INTO UAB, UAB Athletics, Vulcan Materials Academic Success Center, UAB Writing Center, and UAB Trio Academic Services) have joined to implement this software in order to provide students with the tools they will need for academic success.

Not only will this event offer a grab- -and- -go breakfast bar, but will feature well-known Kurzweil Education keynote speaker, Colin Diedrich, Ph.D. Diedrich is a renowned scientist whose research focuses on how HIV increases people’s susceptibility to tuberculosis. Kurzweil helped him to overcome a learning disability he struggled with throughout his school years.

“I quickly found that Kurzweil was a game changer,” he said. “I went from forcing myself to sit down and read, reread, and re-re-read every single word in my case book before I used Kurzweil 3000 to being able to move past the reading struggle, so I could just struggle with the legal jargon like everyone else in my class. Kurzweil 3000’s ability to read the PDF versions of my textbooks, while highlighting each individual word, literally reduced my study time by more than two thirds. By the time I completed my course work at Pitt School of Law I had taken five courses and used Kurzweil 3000 in all of them.

Diedrich noted that the success he had with Kurzweil 3000 in the classroom even translated over to his scientific research.

“I began to use Kurzweil 3000 to read scientific articles that are pertinent to my research. The highlighting and annotating functions also help me remember the material more easily than when I used to print them out, highlight and jot notes in the margins of the page, and wrote a few sentence summaries on Post-It notes. Now, with Kurzweil 3000, I’m able to keep all my papers in an easily searchable digital format that is way easier to read than traditional printed papers.”

Come learn more about this innovative new study skills software that can help your academic success! This event is free to all students, faculty and staff.

For information and disability accommodations, contact Disability Support Services at dss@uab.edu or 205-934-4205.