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Using Technology to improve the Literacy Skills of Disabled Students - 0 views

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    Definition of Literacy Skills - "Literacy skills consist of the ability to think, listen, speak, and read and write effectively."
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    This article also mentions a online service called www.bookshare.org that provides digital books to person with disabilities. Also there is programs like www.rfbd.org (recordings for the blind and dyslexic) and www.loc.gov/nls (Talking Books at the National Library Service) that they can access online have have Audio cassettes or CDs mailed to them postage-free. Even though libraries have had this content for a while the internet makes it much more accessible than ever before. I think thats the core of how technology though the internet increases literacy skills. It gives us "fingertip" access to things we would have had to physically travel for. Digital copies of books that make not even be in local library systems are easily accessible online.
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Adolescent Literacy: What's Technology Got to Do With It? | LD Topics | LD OnLine - 2 views

  • How can technology support learners?
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      References National Center for Technology Innovation and Center for Implementing Technology in Education (2010). Adolescent Literacy: What's Technology Got to Do With It? | LD Topics | LD OnLine. Retrieved June 6, 12, from http://www.ldonline.org/article/35792
  • Video supports, how-to diagrams and animated illustrations. Visuals are a fantastic tool for building background knowledge,
  • Spell checkers.
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  • Word prediction software.
  • Voice recognition software. For students who have severe dysgraphia or spelling disabilities that inhibit their writing, using voice recognition software may offer an alternative way to input their thoughts.
  • Annotations and study skill features. Literacy software with text-to-speech and study skill features can assist learners to be active readers.
  • Definitions, translations, and explanations are now a click away.
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