Following are links to the information found on the No Learning Limits website.

• Top-down models of reading fluency instruction
• Instructional strategies, research, and tools developed by Janice Walth and Ted Wattenberg
• Multi-modal models of learning
• Current research on the brain and learning
• Participatory action research and collaborative program development
• Webpage about our research
• Frequently Asked Questions (being developed)

Presentations on reading fluency with a screen reader:

A Definition of Reading Fluency

A Short Introduction to Screen Reader Technology
An introduction to screen reader technology used for reading fluency. This technology is different than audio book technology that utlizes recordings of real people at normal conversational speeds. The movie reviews voice types, speed of speech, and other text/screen format functions typically found in screen reader applications.

Student Presentation on Reading Fluency
An introduction to the reading fluency program with screen reading technology. It discusses learning to read from a perspective of having a print disability. Basic screen reader technology is demonstrated. Recorded student interviews are used to help explain the concepts of learning to read with screen reader techology.


Instructor Presentation on Reading Fluency - Intermediate level
This is the presentation given at CSUN 2008 and CAPED 2008.
A more in depth presentation of the reading fluency program, emphasizing student learning outcomes, measures of achievement, and supportive reading fluency/brain research. It is assumed that the viewer has a basic understanding of screen reading technology and reading fluency theories. Recorded student interviews are used to better understand the myth about reading with the eyes, social learning, and the 3 stage reading fluency curriculum.

A Presentation on Reading Fluency for Instructors at an Entry Level is still being developed.

Following is a link to the conference handouts that we provided at the CSUN 2008 and CAPED 2008 conferences on assistive technology: http://www.wattenberg.biz/ConferenceMaterials/index.htm


Teacher Education Presentation on Reading Fluency - Beginning to Advanced
A PowerPoint Presentation given in the Educational Technology in Special Education course at California State University, Sacramento. This presentation describes some of the instructional theories, strategies, and measures necessary to successfully integrate screen reader technology into a reading fluency program. There are two versions of the presentation: one in a Windows Explorer format and the other in Windows Media Center format.

Curriculum and Instructional Tools

The following are presentations and online tools that have been developed to support courses in adaptive/assistive technology. There are two areas of learning to use assistive technology: navigation and understanding information.

• Adaptive Technology Course on Internet Navigation
  Course on Internet navigation for people learning to use an assistive technology or having a difficulty learning to use computers.
  • Stdudent outcomes:
    • The student will confidently be able to navigate the Internet using Internet explorer with an assistive technology.
    • The student will be motivated as an independent learner to develop and utilize computer coping strategies and skills.
    • Link to conference paper on research supporting curriculum.
      


• Reading Cafe
  The Reading Cafe is especially created for students in the reading fluency program of the Disability Support Programs and Services at San Joaquin Delta College. Reading Cafe is a place for the student to independently choose a book to read. This is a place where a student can read about other people's suggestions and comments on books that they have read . The student can also make their own comments and ratings.
  
  
• Reading Group
  Reading Group 2
  One of our activities is called the reading group. In this activity,a student has an opportunity to read short selections and then discuss them in a friendly and supportive environment. The reading group is available to all users of screen readers, from beginning to advanced readers.  The purpose is to provide a social setting for people to come together and share the unique experience of reading with a screen reader.  We read and discuss short stories, newspaper and magazine articles and sometimes short novels.  Within this social environment, a student can build confidence in their reading ability and share tips about reading techniques.  They can expand their reading experiences by reading a variety of subjects, authors and literary styles.  The discussions help a student recognize other perspectives about the topics that are read. 
  

The information and research used:

Following are links to bibliographies, publications, and other research materials that have been used in the development of the previous curriculum and instructional materials. The content ranges across the fields of reading theory, brain research, rehabilitation science, speech and language sciences, and other related fields. We hope that you will find these resources valuable and interesting.

Published work by and about Janice Walth and Ted Wattenberg

Extended bibliography on reading flluency with a screen reader

Judy Willis - Very understandable and usable research about the brain, learning, and classroom instructional strategies.

To be updated again soon.
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