Bringing Speech Recognition to the Classroom

According to the report of the National Reading Panel (2000), the single best practice for developing reading fluency is one-on-one guided oral reading. Most classrooms are not staffed to provide enough guided oral reading practice. In this new report from the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Marilyn Jager Adams, a pioneer in literacy research and practice, points to evidence that basic speech recognition technology -- widely used in telephone call-routing and directory assistance -- can be tapped as a cost-effective and scalable way to provide individual reading support to improve early childhood literacy, particularly fluency. http://support.weta.org/site/R?i=KOv3iuCRfnL4EPP-284rVw