The computer assisted speech tool approach is designed to facilitate record keeping and prescriptive teaching for individual deaf students. The program produces a personalized listing of the student's current level of speech skill in profile form and a description of the instructional sequence for six appropriate speech subskills. (Author/CL)

The author cites the potential of computer assisted instruction (CAI) for handicapped students and reports on a study of a spelling CAI program for learning disabled (LD) college students. Among difficulties for the LD students were lack of student confidence in using the programs and difficulty in reading the instructions. (CL)

Reports on a national survey to identify effective microcomputer assisted instruction for vocational special needs students. (SK)

A project is underway which is examining tactual, auditory, and visual approaches to giving visually impaired students access to microcomputers. A three-module student instructional program, a workshop for teachers in residential and day-school programs, and criteria for software evaluation have also been developed. (CL)

The Arc Ed Curriculum uses video game formats to teach math and language arts content. Four motivational features (feedback, improvement, high response rates, and unlimited ceiling on performance along with adapted content could make the system applicable for use with severely handicapped learners. (CL)

Market factors surrounding computer software in special education are examined, including proliferation of computers in schools, widespread marketing and distribution patterns for software, consumer demands for software, quality, timelessness, emphasis on basic skills, and an understanding of future capabilities. (CL)

Discusses the pros and cons of using computer-assisted instruction for training and the difficulty in evaluating various programs. (JOW)

Suggests that the computer may have applications in counselor training. Outlines the capacities and characteristics currently available in computer technology as they relate to the tasks and methods of counselor education and reviews available computer system models and limitations in terms of implications for use in training efforts. (JAC)

A math teacher recounts how six weeks of computer assisted instruction, about which she had been very skeptical at first, resulted in substantial gains for six learning disabled students in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. (CL)

If business education is to be the front runner in teaching information processing, classroom teachers must be given equipment, training, and encouragement. Then business teachers can successfully help students meet the challenges of the revolution taking place in the business world. (JOW)

A parody of Swift that calls for American parents to once again take the responsibility of education for their children by teaching them by computer at home and abolishing the school system. (CRH)

With the introduction of computer based education into the Brazilian culture, the process of cultural diffusion and the problems and prospects for success can be seen. (Author/ER)

The scope of this historical overview includes the salient contributions from the several scientific and engineering disciplines which made CAI possible during the late 1950's. The time span covered runs from Plato to PLATO. (Author/BD)