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Subject: [NIFL-TECHNOLOGY:69] Software for ESL students with dyslexia (x-post from TESLIT-L)
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NIFL-TECH-ies,
I thought this information that Christine Norris has compiled and
posted to the TESLIT-L List might also be of interest to members of the
NIFL-Technology list. If you know of other software for ESL students with
dyslexia, please post to this list and also to TESLIT-L and to Christine.
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From: CHRISTINE NORRIS <norris@FACULTY.MALA.BC.CA>
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Subject: Summary: Software for ESL students with dyslexia
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Subject: Summary: Software for ESL students with dyslexia
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On October 17, I asked if anyone knew of software or websites
that would help adult ESL students with learning disabilities,
especially dyslexia. Because auditory processing deficiencies are
often a cause of dyslexia, CALL could be an ideal way to provide
intensive multisensory teaching of phonology.
I posted the request to TELCA-L and TESLIT-L and received 8
replies, 3 of which were requests to summarize my replies.
Programs that have been developed for L1 (i.e. English) children:
1 The Earobics program www.cogcon.com
The website includes a listing and definition of auditory processing
skills that underlie language learning.
2. the FastForward program www.scilearn.com
This program is based on the work of Paula Tallal and has been
written up in Science (Jan 5, 1996) and Scientific American (Nov
1996??) Tallal discovered that children with learning impairments
were unable to process information in tens of millisecond chunks.
FastForward programs are games that supposedly increase the child's
rate of speech processing.
Other phonetic suggestions
1. Autoskills...Academy of Reading www.abenaki.com/autoskil.htm
I have used this program with ESL literacy students with good
success.
2. ALA LabSystem's AudioLab and AudioWrite. www.ala-usa.com
A computer/language lab coordinator suggested these because one of
her dyslexic student was very impressed with them . AudioLab
provides the students with simultaneously reading and listening of a
lesson (from 12 to 22 lines of text).
3. "Randomizer" and grammar and listening
quizzes
www-writing.berkeley.edu/chorus/call/cuttingedge.html
I am still looking for suggestions. What do you think about the
first two programs, based on L1 children? Would they also
benefit adult ESL students?
With thanks,
Christine Norris norris @faculty.mala.bc.ca
ESL Department Malaspina University-College
900 5th Street Nanaimo, B.C. V9R 5S5 CANADA
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