TY - GEN
T1 - Spelling remediation for dyslexic children using the SelfSpell programs
AU - Nicolson, Roderick I.
AU - Fawcett, Angela J.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 1992.
PY - 1992/1/1
Y1 - 1992/1/1
N2 - This paper describes the SelfSpell Hypercard environment for dyslexic children which helps them to learn to spell their problem words. Synthesised speech is used to augment the written text and different levels of help are available at all times. Two versions are available, with one in which the children are encouraged to enter rules to help them remember how to spell each word, and one in which a mastery learning technique is used. Evaluations of the effectiveness of the software indicated substantial improvements with either version in the spelling and motivation of two groups of dyslexic children. The results indicate that, with an appropriate remedial environment, even children with minimal initial spelling ability are able to acquire the spellings of even quite difficult words. The positive results with the mastery-based approach suggest that SelfSpell can help dyslexic children to surmount the barrier of alphabetic coding.
AB - This paper describes the SelfSpell Hypercard environment for dyslexic children which helps them to learn to spell their problem words. Synthesised speech is used to augment the written text and different levels of help are available at all times. Two versions are available, with one in which the children are encouraged to enter rules to help them remember how to spell each word, and one in which a mastery learning technique is used. Evaluations of the effectiveness of the software indicated substantial improvements with either version in the spelling and motivation of two groups of dyslexic children. The results indicate that, with an appropriate remedial environment, even children with minimal initial spelling ability are able to acquire the spellings of even quite difficult words. The positive results with the mastery-based approach suggest that SelfSpell can help dyslexic children to surmount the barrier of alphabetic coding.
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U2 - 10.1007/3-540-55578-1_95
DO - 10.1007/3-540-55578-1_95
M3 - Conference proceeding (ISBN)
AN - SCOPUS:85029772485
SN - 9783540555780
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 503
EP - 515
BT - Computer Assisted Learning - 4th International Conference, ICCAL 1992, Proceedings
A2 - Tomek, Ivan
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - 4th International Conference on Computers and Learning, ICCAL 1992
Y2 - 17 June 1992 through 20 June 1992
ER -