Story Assembly in a Dyslexia Fluency Tutor

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  • Arthur Ward
  • Rebecca S. Crowley
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To overcome their substantial barriers to fluent reading, students with dyslexia need to be enticed to read more, and to read texts with carefully controlled lexical content. We describe and show examples from a prototype of the new Raft story assembly engine, which generates an interactive text that has A) variable plot and B) lexical content which is individualized by decoding pattern.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011