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The Effectiveness of TriAccess Reading System on Comprehending Nature Science Text for Students with Learning Disabilities

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Computers Helping People with Special Needs (ICCHP 2008)

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The major purpose of this paper was to explore the effectiveness of an individualized reading system, TriAccess, for students with learning difficulties to comprehend the nature science text. Twenty 5th and 6th grade students with learning disabilities participated in the experiment. All the students read the articles presented with and without multiple representations on the TriAcees system. Six articles related to Endemic species in Taiwan served as experimental material. The results of the experiment indicated that the performance of reading comprehension was better when the participants read with multiple representations.

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  1. Department of Special Education, National Chiayi University Department of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National Chiayi University, No.300 Syuefu Rd., Chiayi, 600, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Ming-Chung Chen, Chun-Han Chiang & Chien-Chuan Ko

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Chen, MC., Chiang, CH., Ko, CC. (2008). The Effectiveness of TriAccess Reading System on Comprehending Nature Science Text for Students with Learning Disabilities. In: Miesenberger, K., Klaus, J., Zagler, W., Karshmer, A. (eds) Computers Helping People with Special Needs. ICCHP 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5105. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70540-6_109

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