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Holmer, Emil; Heimann, Mikael; Rudner, Mary – Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education, 2017
Strengthening the connections between sign language and written language may improve reading skills in deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) signing children. The main aim of the present study was to investigate whether computerized sign language-based literacy training improves reading skills in DHH signing children who are learning to read. Further,…
Descriptors: Deafness, Partial Hearing, Computer Uses in Education, Sign Language
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Larsson, Ellinor; Larsson-Lund, Maria; Nilsson, Ingeborg – Educational Gerontology, 2013
The digital gap is a threat to the participation of senior citizens in society, as a large proportion of seniors are not involved in Internet based activities (IBAs). To be able to overcome this disadvantage for seniors, there is a need to both learn more about the conditions that make seniors start performing IBAs and to be able to provide them…
Descriptors: Access to Computers, Disadvantaged, Internet, Older Adults
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Gustafson, Stefan; Falth, Linda; Svensson, Idor; Tjus, Tomas; Heimann, Mikael – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2011
In a longitudinal intervention study, the effects of three intervention strategies on the reading skills of children with reading disabilities in Grade 2 were analyzed. The interventions consisted of computerized training programs: One bottom-up intervention aimed at improving word decoding skills and phonological abilities, the second…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Intervention, Disabilities, Decoding (Reading)