Using a Text to Speech Device as an Instructional and Assessment Accommodation in the Classroom - Care Innovations Community.
The independent research institute SRI International worked with 100 students with reading-based learning disabilities to determine how and when the Intel® Reader, the mobile assistive technology that converts a picture of text to speech, was most effective as an accommodation.
SRI International has worked with government agencies, commercial business and foundations and associations providing award-winning research and development for 60 years. SRI International found that the Intel Reader had a powerful and significant role in helping students read and answer questions on a passage that was judged as significantly more difficult than the average reading grade level of the students in the study. The improvement was so large that SRI International projected that under certain conditions it can be expected that a student who did not use the Intel Reader for the passage and got 50% of the answers right would have gotten 73% of the answers right using the Intel® Reader.
We were so pleased with the results from SRI International’s testing, we’ve put together five blog posts highlighting the findings and offering suggestions to parents, teachers and administrators who work with students who have reading-based learning disabilities on the best ways to use the Intel Reader as an accommodation in the classroom and to improve the overall performance of students. This is the first post in a five-part series.
