There has been little research on speech recognition for students with LD.
My
colleagues and I just completed a review of research on technology and
literacy for
students with disabilities (MacArthur, Ferretti, Okolo, & Cavalier, in
press,
Elementary School Journal). The only experimental studies we found were by
Raskind
and Higgins (Raskind & Higgins, 1999 in Annals of Dyslexia & Higgins &
Raskind,
1995 in Learning Disability Quarterly).
We have just completed, but not yet published, a study of dictation and
speech
recognition as accommodations on statewide writing assessments. High
school
students with and without LD learned to use speech recognition and wrote
persuasive
essays under 3 conditions: handwriting, dictation to a scribe, and speech
recognition. Students with LD, but not students without LD, produced
higher
quality essays under both dictation conditions than with handwriting.
There is a great need both for experimental studies and for detailed case
studies.
Charles MacArthur
Univ of Delaware
macarthu@udel.edu
spk2wrt@phoenix.edc.org wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am currently working on a graduate paper in which I am using research
to
> support the use of voice recognition by an eleven year old with learning
> disabilities. Does anyone have any suggestions as to resources, aritcles
> and websites that contain research documentation supporting the use of
> vooice recogniton with students with learning disabilities. I am not
> looking for sites that advertise their products. I am looking for true
> research and documentation that justifies my use of the software for this
> student. Thanks to everyone for your suggestions!
>
> Maddie Gold
>
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