[Athen] Dragon NaturallySpeaking and literacy learning?

[Dan Comden]

Searching on "speech recognition" and "dyslexia", here's one article I 
quickly located. Not clear if it's DNS

"Speech Recognition-based and Automaticity Programs to Help Students with 
Severe Reading and Spelling Problems", by Higgins, Eleanor L.; Raskind, 
Marshall H., Annals of Dyslexia v. 54 no. 2 (2004) p. 365-92

"This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of two programs 
developed by the Frostig Center Research Department to improve the reading 
and spelling of students with learning disabilities (LD): a computer 
speech Recognition-based program (SRBP) and a computer and text-based 
Automaticity Program (AP). Twenty-eight LD students with reading and 
spelling difficulties (aged 8 to 18) received each program for 17 weeks 
and were compared with 16 students in a contrast group who did not receive 
either program. After adjusting for age and IQ, both the SRBP and AP 
groups showed significant differences over the contrast group in improving 
word recognition and reading comprehension. Neither program showed 
significant differences over contrasts in spelling. The SRBP also improved 
the performance of the target group when compared with the contrast group 
on phonological elision and nonword reading efficiency tasks. The AP 
showed significant differences in all process and reading efficiency 
measures."

-*- Dan Comden			danc at u.washington.edu
     Access Technology Lab	http://www.washington.edu/computing/atl/
     University of Washington

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Dawn Hunziker wrote:


> Hi all,

>

> Anyone have any information for this request?

>

> Thanks!

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> Dawn

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>> Begin forwarded message:

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>>> From: Anne Gilmore <<mailto:gila at ljbc.wa.edu.au>gila at ljbc.wa.edu.au>

>>> Date: September 13, 2006 11:28:52 PM MST

>>> To: <mailto:oscr at email.arizona.edu>oscr at email.arizona.edu

>>> Subject: Dragon Naturally Speaking from Anne Gilmore

>>> 

>>> 

>>> I am interested in knowing if you guys know of any research that suggests 

>>> that the above software (Dragon NaturallySpeaking) is beneficial for 

>>> children who are experiencing learning difficulties in literacy.  If you 

>>> do, could you let me know.  Thanks, Anne Gilmore

>

> Dawn Hunziker

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