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Download full textHornery, Samantha; Seaton, Marjorie; Tracey, Danielle; Craven, Rhonda G.; Yeung, Alexander S. – Australian Journal of Educational & Developmental Psychology, 2014
This article describes the need for, and the structure and contents of, a reading program to help support children disadvantaged by reading difficulties. The program, delivered by trained and supported volunteers, lasts for 15 weeks. It uses a novel dual approach which aims to improve students' reading skills and simultaneously enhance their…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Reading Difficulties, Self Concept, Children
Peer reviewedTabe, Noble; Jackson, Merrill – Australia and New Zealand Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 1989
Sixteen moderately mentally retarded children, aged 9-13, were trained in sight words by manipulating pictorial stimuli (fading versus nonfading) in relationship to the word stimulus location (superimposition versus juxtaposition of picture and word), to orient the learner's attention to the word. Subjects who were trained using superimposition…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Intermediate Grades, Moderate Mental Retardation, Pictorial Stimuli
Grocke, Margaret – 1982
Computer-based reading programs have been used at the City Educational Clinic in Canberra, Australia, to improve the reading skills of children who are "reading disabled." Children interacted with the computer via a graphic display, touch sensitive screen, and synthesized speech. The first program taught a basic sight vocabulary and…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries, Program Descriptions
