Monday, October 21, 2013

Assisted Literacy Software

Assisted Literacy Software is another type of assistive technology used in the classroom.

Assisted Literacy Software is great for students with Dyslexia, ELL students, or any student that is having trouble reading on their level. It is a computer system that teaches the foundation skills for reading.

Reading Horizons is a program that uses a multi-sensory delivery approach. They train the teachers as well as the students. It adapts to whole class, small group and individual settings. " Instruction should start with the most basic concepts then sequentially build to larger, comprehensive concepts that help develop meta-cognitive awareness of the language, thus illuminating text."(Readinghorizons.com, 2013)


(YouTube, 2013)

Watch the video to see how the program works: http://athome.readinghorizons.com/multimedia/method-overview.aspx . I didn't know that there this many rules to why different words sound a certain way. I might have learned it when I was in first grade but I didn't keep the information in my head. 

I honestly was amazed with this program. 

References

Readinghorizons.com (2013). Approach - Reading Horizons. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.readinghorizons.com/our-approach [Accessed: 21 Oct 2013].


YouTube (2013). How Reading Horizons Works for Dyslexia. [online] Retrieved from: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtrNUjXlz4w [Accessed: 21 Oct 2013].

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