Using Technology to Teach
Reading and Writing to
Students with Learning
Disabilities
Gabi and Jean
EFL537

Process of Learning to Read
Decoding
Comprehension
Retention

Reading Difficulities
Decoding Difficulties
d or [d]
Comprehension Difficulties
Blue
Retention Difficulties

Process of Learning to Write
Imitation
Progressive Incorporation
Automatization

Techniques to Address Writing
Difficulties Attention Problems
Spatial / Sequential Ordering
Memory Problems
Language Problems
Higher-order cognition problems
Graphomotor Problems

Software Used
• Microsoft Movie maker
• Audacity
• Google Document
• ProProfs Quiz
• Text-to-Speech

Microsoft Movie Maker
Snowman Interactive Vocabulary Video

Audacity
Frosty the snowman record

Google Documents
Frosty the snowman returns

ProProfs Quiz
Snowman test

Text-to-Speech - Read Please 2003
http://www.readplease.com/
Text-to-Speech Jing
http://efl537.com/blog/text-voice-jing-gabi

Lesson Plan - Part 1 - Reading
• Preview Frosty song and the video
• Review test on Frosty song
• Group Discussion
• Class Discussion
• Audacity model
• Students recording
• Homework

Lesson Plan - Part 2 - Writing
• Review vocabulary with word blocks
• Review story and Quiz
• Discussion graphic organizers
• Group write
• Class sharing
• Homework

Discussion
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Questions