Monday, March 23, 2009

Article Assessment #5:

“Assistive Technologies for Reading” by Ted S. Hasselbring and Margaret E. Bausch.

Overview:

This article discusses how assistive technologies such as, Read & Write Gold by TextHELP and the Read 180 program published by Scholastic Inc., are tools that can help all educators guide and support students through class material with additional reading support and reading intervention or training programs. The authors present findings that 8 out of 10 students with learning disabilities have reading problems. Text-reader software like Read & Write Gold assist students by using synthetic speech to read text aloud with the student as well as provide support for writing and editing by reading back what the student has composed. Technologies like these help the student recognize when they have skipped words or misread material written material and in compositions of their own. Other software programs are known as reading intervention. These systems provide individualized reading strategies and training to students based on their current skill level. . Programs such as Read 180 .....

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