Interactive stories and exercises with dynamic feedback for improving reading comprehension skills in deaf children
ARTICLE
Ornella Mich, Emanuele Pianta, Nadia Mana
Computers & Education Volume 65, Number 1, ISSN 0360-1315 Publisher: Elsevier Ltd
Abstract
Deaf children have significant difficulties in comprehending written text. This is mainly due to the hearing loss that prevents them from being exposed to oral language when they were an infant. However, it is also due to the type of educational intervention they are faced with, which accustoms them to decoding single words and isolated sentences, rather than entire texts. This paper presents an evolved version of a literacy web tool for deaf children based on stories and comprehension exercises. Two substantial improvements were made with the respect to the first version of our application. First, the text of the stories is now presented to children in the context of
Citation
Mich, O., Pianta, E. & Mana, N. (2013). Interactive stories and exercises with dynamic feedback for improving reading comprehension skills in deaf children. Computers & Education, 65(1), 34-44. Elsevier Ltd. Retrieved March 21, 2023 from https://www.learntechlib.org/p/132192/.
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Keywords
- Animation
- assistive technology
- Childrens Literature
- Computer Interfaces
- Computer Software Evaluation
- Control Groups
- Deafness
- educational technology
- elementary education
- Elementary School Students
- Experimental Groups
- instructional design
- Instructional Effectiveness
- instructional materials
- intelligent tutoring systems
- Interactive Learning Environments
- Multimedia Materials
- reading comprehension
- Reading Instruction
- Reading Materials
- special education
- Story Telling
- usability
- Web Based Instruction