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Peer reviewedMacArthur, Charles A.; Haynes, Jacqueline B. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1995
Student Assistant for Learning from Text (SALT) is a software system for developing hypermedia versions of textbooks for students with reading difficulties. Ten students with learning disabilities in grades 9 and 10 read passages from a science textbook in either the basic or computer-enhanced version. Students using the enhanced version received…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Hypermedia, Learning Disabilities
Peer reviewedMastropieri, Margo A.; Scruggs, Thomas E.; Graetz, Janet E. – Learning Disability Quarterly, 2003
Specific difficulties for the secondary student with reading difficulties are described, followed by a literature review of most promising practices, including peer tutoring that incorporates comprehension strategy instruction and elaborative strategies in history and science classes. Research using "Inspiration" software to generate spatially…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Software, Learning Disabilities, Peer Teaching
Peer reviewedMontali, Julie; Lewandowski, Lawrence – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1996
Eighteen average readers and 18 less-skilled readers (grades 8 and 9) were presented with social studies and science passages via a computer either visually (on screen), auditorily (read by digitized voice), or bimodally (on screen, highlighted while being voiced). Less-skilled readers demonstrated comprehension in the bimodal condition equivalent…
Descriptors: Artificial Speech, Computer Assisted Instruction, Content Area Reading, Instructional Effectiveness
Campanini, Susan – Studies in Language Learning, 1981
Ideas for designing computer-assisted instruction (CAI) lessons that take into account the learning characteristics of disadvantaged adult students are examined, based on experiences with students who undertook a series of PLATO lessons in preparation for the GED (high school equivalency) exam. The students, who ranged in age from 18 to 60 years…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Branching, Computer Assisted Instruction, Economically Disadvantaged
