scholarly journals A Novel Framework Incorporating Augmented Reality and Pedagogy for Improving Reading Comprehension in Special Education

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrianthi Kapetanaki ◽  
Akrivi Krouska ◽  
Christos Troussas ◽  
Cleo Sgouropoulou
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Style ◽  
Learning Theories ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Educational Environments

Augmented Reality (AR) is an emerging technology thriving in recent years. The implementation of AR in education offers great opportunities to enhance educational environments achieving better learning outcomes. As students with learning disabilities struggle with reading comprehension, an AR learning environment provides them support to better understand texts they actually read. Even though few studies have tried to explore the impact of AR technology to reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities in Secondary Education, there is a lack of research grounded in the incorporation of learning theories and personalization technologies. The goal of this paper is to present an AR educational environment capable of supporting meaningful learning outcomes by taking into consideration each student special educational needs and learning style. The novelty of this study lies in the student-centered and personalized design, which leads to improved understanding, student interaction and self-learning.

Educational Technology Based on Virtual and Augmented Reality for Students With Learning Disabilities

2022 ◽  
pp. 26-44
Author(s):  
Sonia Rodriguez Cano ◽  
Vanesa Delgado-Benito ◽  
Vitor Gonçalves
Keyword(s):  
Educational Technology ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Diversity Awareness ◽  
Student Centered ◽  
Student Centered Learning ◽  
Information And Communication

Educational technology is contributing towards diversity awareness as it allows you to create more personalized and student-centered learning situations. This chapter addresses specific learning difficulties (SpLD) and, specifically, dyslexia, since it is one of the most prevalent challenges in the educational field. Information and communication technologies allow direct intervention with students who have special educational needs as an alternative to traditional resources, which is much more motivating. In this sense, as an example, various projects and applications are presented that allow working on this type of difficulties with students. This chapter highlights the virtual reality and augmented reality software carried out in the context of the European Erasmus + FORDYSVAR project, of which the authors are part.

scholarly journals Typy uczniów w młodszym wieku szkolnym a ich strategie uczenia się i preferencje – doniesienia z badań

2020 ◽  
pp. 201-213
Author(s):  
Joanna Skibska
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Learning Strategies ◽  
Visual Learning ◽  
Educational Needs ◽  
Individual Student ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Student Groups ◽  
The Individual

The article presents findings of the research on the diagnosis of student types and strategies and techniques of learning preferred by students with very good performance in learning, as well as those with learning disabilities and special educational needs (SEN). Research reveals the occurrence of certain regularities in individual student groups. Students with high learning outcomes are primarily of an intellectual type and prefer visual learning strategies, whereas students with learning disabilities are of an emotional, acting and cooperating type, their learning based on auditory and kinesthetic strategies. Students with special educational needs are of an emotional type. Hence, they most often use auditory and visual learning strategies. In the individual groups, there a marked correlation was observed between the student types and professional preferences. The intellectual type (students with high scores) would like to engage in occupations related to intellectual and artistic work in the future; the emotional, acting and cooperating type (children with learning difficulties) is interested in performing service professions, while the emotional type (students with special educational needs) sees their future in counselling professions.

scholarly journals Evaluation of Disabled STEAM -Students’ Education Learning Outcomes and Creativity under the UN Sustainable Development Goal: Project-Based Learning Oriented STEAM Curriculum with Micro:bit

2022 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 679
Author(s):  
Shih-Yun Lu ◽  
Chu-Lung Wu ◽  
You-Ming Huang
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Students With Disabilities ◽  
Learning Outcomes ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Single Case ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Special Educational Needs ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
The Impact

This research aims to discuss the impact of the STEAM curriculum on students with learning disabilities and their learning outcomes and creativity. Teaching for creative thinking is the strategy to deliver a STEAM-structured curriculum and to reach the SDG4 targets. The content is designed in line with project-based learning (PBL), while the micro:bit and paper cutting are used as materials to support it. Methods and Procedures: The single-case research approach (A-B-M) was applied to study three students with special educational needs in primary school. The entire curriculum takes up to 10 weeks with 12 STEAM lessons with activities. The independent variable was the PBL-oriented STEAM curriculum, and the dependent variables were the learning outcomes and TTCT results of pre-tests and post-tests for creativity. There were immediate learning outcomes and retention effects found on the three participants. This paper addresses that the STEAM curriculum had a positive impact on their creativity, which gives affirmative feedback on the curriculum. Conclusion: This PBL-oriented STEAM curriculum under the SDG4 targets gave students with disabilities creativity competency and positive learning outcomes in these case studies. These teaching materials enable teachers to deliver the STEAM curriculum to students with learning disabilities.

Increasing Secondary Students’ Comprehension Through Explicit Attention to Narrative Text Structure

2021 ◽  
pp. 004005992110255
Author(s):  
Whitney Sommers Butler ◽  
Casey Hord ◽  
Susan Watts-Taffe
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
High School Students ◽  
Reading Instruction ◽  
Secondary Students ◽  
Text Structure ◽  
Literacy Skills ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Narrative Texts ◽  
School Students

In spite of the prevailing assumption that formal reading instruction is no longer needed once adolescents reach high school, students at the secondary level still benefit from explicit reading instruction to continue developing advanced literacy skills enabling them to access complex narrative texts. This article argues for the importance of teachers to scrutinize the texts they plan to teach to determine what instruction and supports are needed to promote reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities. Specifically, this article examines how nonlinear text structures can challenge adolescent reading comprehension and illustrates explicit text structure instruction with three exemplar texts which use unconventional narrative patterns. The article emphasizes the importance of considering the qualitative features of texts to inform instruction to support reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities.

Reading Comprehension Instruction: Summarization and Self-Monitoring Training for Students with Learning Disabilities

1991 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 270-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda Duncan Malone ◽  
Margo A. Mastropieri
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Training Session ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
School Students ◽  
Self Monitoring ◽  
Think Aloud Protocols ◽  
Reading Comprehension Instruction ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Monitoring Training

Forty-five middle-school students with learning disabilities were randomly assigned to one of three reading-comprehension training conditions: (a) summarization training, (b) summarization training with a self-monitoring component, or (c) traditional instruction. All students were interviewed before and after training regarding the strategies they typically employ during reading comprehension; during one training session, “think aloud” protocols were collected. Results indicated that students with learning disabilities trained in summarization procedures performed statistically higher on all dependent measures. In addition, on some transfer measures, students who were trained in the monitoring component statistically outperformed those with only the summarization training.

Innovations in Blended-Learning

2014 ◽  
pp. 295-306
Author(s):  
Edith Gotesman ◽  
Miri Krisi
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Computer Technology ◽  
English For Academic Purposes ◽  
Traditional Teaching ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Tests ◽  
Sample Group ◽  
E Learning

This research was born out of a necessity to accommodate students with learning disabilities who study English for Academic Purposes (EAP) at the Ashkelon Academic College in Israel. It was aimed at examining whether a convergence of traditional teaching and computer technology complemented by e-learning could assist students with Learning Disabilities (LD) to bypass their initial disadvantages when it came to studying English. Groups of LD students selected for study were given five regular and two guided reading tests to explore whether the use of blended learning improved the reading comprehension abilities of students in the sample group.

Sentence-Level Gist: Literacy Instruction for Students With Learning Disabilities in Co-Taught Classrooms

2020 ◽  
pp. 105345122094437
Author(s):  
Marney S. Pollack ◽  
Alexandra Shelton ◽  
Erin Clancy ◽  
Christopher J. Lemons
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Literacy Instruction ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Sentence Level ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Identification Strategy ◽  
Main Idea Identification

Several strategies that demonstrate promise are available for educators to improve reading comprehension outcomes for students. However, some students, including students with and at risk for learning disabilities, require more intensive supports to develop proficiency in reading comprehension. To support these students, teachers must intensify instruction. This article describes an intensive main idea identification strategy, sentence-level gist, for teachers to use with students with persistent reading comprehension difficulties in the co-taught classroom. The sentence-level gist strategy requires students to determine the subject and important words in each sentence and then synthesize this information to write a main idea statement for a section of a text.

Best Practices in Promoting Reading Comprehension in Students with Learning Disabilities 1976 to 1996

1997 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 198-213 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margo A. Mastropieri ◽  
Thomas E. Scruggs
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Whole Language ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Students With Learning Disabilities ◽  
Reading Comprehension Strategies ◽  
Questioning Strategies

Abstract In this review, the best practices for facilitating reading comprehension for students with learning disabilities are described and summarized. these best practices were derived from the results of an extensive literature review of research in reading comprehension with students with learning disabilities. analysis of all relevant literature revealed consistently high effects for some reading comprehension strategies. strongest outcomes were observed for teacher-led questioning and self-questioning strategies, followed by text-en hancem ent strategies, and, finally, strategies involving basic skills instruction and reinforcement. the few studies that were located in the area of whole language yielded less positive outcomes. implications for effective practice are described.

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