caa a22 4500 46906708X CHVBK 20180323132911.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e19920601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/BF01027490 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/BF01027490 Olofsson Åke Department of Psychology, University of Umeå, S-901 87, Umeå, Sweden aut Synthetic speech and computer aided reading for reading disabled children [Elektronische Daten] [Åke Olofsson] A simple way to partially compensate for word decoding problems is to let disabled readers have a micro-computer pronounce the words they are unable to read. Using a program developed for the IBM-PC/AT and a Scandinavian multilingual text-to-speech unit, children can read a textfile (of any size) on the monitor and use a mouse to request the immediate pronunciation of a word. In study 1, Grade-2 children did not perform better on a reading comprehension test when using computer-aided reading, but they rated their understanding significantly higher than when using a text. In study 2, the effect of computer-aided reading in special education settings was studied. Results indicated that older children, from grade 4 and up, benefited more from the computer aided reading than did younger ones. However, both experimental and control groups showed gains in several aspects of reading. Some children did not seem to have metacognitive skills enough to benefit from the computer-aided system. These children may initially need more extensive training in how to use the system and how to monitor their own reading. Reasons for letting the computer deliver the decoding aid as morphological segments are discussed. Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1992 Metacognitive skills nationallicence Morphological segments nationallicence Reading nationallicence Speech feedback training nationallicence Reading and Writing Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/2(1992-06-01), 165-178 0922-4777 4:2<165 1992 4 11145 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027490 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01027490 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Olofsson Åke Department of Psychology, University of Umeå, S-901 87, Umeå, Sweden aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Reading and Writing Kluwer Academic Publishers 4/2(1992-06-01), 165-178 0922-4777 4:2<165 1992 4 11145 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer