Scientifically-Based Research Validating Kurzweil 3000

The article by the Kruzweil Educational Systems, An Annotated Review of Current Rearch Supporting the Use of Kurzweil 3000 in the classsroom is an excellent literature source. The article which was divided into two parts: Why Kurzweil 3000 provides essential support to students who are reading significantly below grade level and Kurzweil 3000 The Ideal Classroom Accomodation are then broken down into skills that are challenging to struggling readers. This is where the literature comes in. Under each of these skills there are titles listed that correspond with the skill and a summary of the text. These titles were easy to locate by googling them. There were several that caught the interest of my husband and myself .... The Reading Crisis: Why Poor Children Fall Behind. I see some excellent resources for future courses anyone might be taking or professional reading around your interests and student needs. As well, I found a quote within this text that I think does a good job summarizing the benefits of using text to speech software like Kurzweil which would be useful in explaining to teachers who are hesitant who these tools are essential for some students..."ways of exposing struggling readers to subject matter content at their grade level while helping them become more accurate and fluent readers."