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As ICT has become more frequently used in Education, a lot of research has been carried out investigating its effectiveness in assisting Learning. Here are some sources that you may find interesting.
Access to Text using ICT for Students with Reading Difficulties
From The CALL Centre. This presentation summarises some of the legal requirements on Schools in Scotland in terms of providing access to education and explains various methods of accessing text in several forms. See it online.
Supportive Writing Technology
From The CALL Centre. This downloadable book begins by highlighting the writers who would benefit from using supportive writing technology and outlines the various approaches which can be used to help them. The technology review is now a little dated, but may still be interesting. See more here.
Text to Speech: Comparison of text to speech applications
From www.dyslexic.com. This article, written in August 2004, provides a summary of products that can make a computer talk, known as Text-to-Speech applications (sometimes shortened to TTS applications). Read it online.
Text-to-Speech: Results from using text to speech in secondary schools
From www.dyslexic.com. Extracts from an independent survey into the effectiveness of TextHELP (a TTS Program) at a specialist school for dyslexic pupils. Read it online
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