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This project develops web-based educational software (Knowledge Athletes Platform - orKAP) for use in inclusive education settings. The software supports the participation of students whoare deaf, hard of hearing, or have disabilities affecting auditory processing and experience difficulty inoral communication. KAP provides teachers with new opportunities to engage their classes online inintellect ...

We propose to develop a web based educational software platform (Literacy Engagement and Achievement Passport or LEAP) that can be used by students to support higher levels of literacy engagement and achievement among adolescents,in traditional middle school and high school classes as well as other educational settings.

This project helps adults with cognitive impairments (CI), family members, other caregivers, and medical personnel in monitoring and controlling diabetes in a home setting. The project has fourobjectives: (1) to study how CI affects the over-all self-care, family care, and professional care ofpersons with diabetes; (2) to identify unique needs of adults ages 21-65 with diabetes who have mild tomod ...

This project develops a social networking system that: (1) brings real world skills andsettings into the home and school using video modeling, (2) is safe and cost effective, and (3) creates atrusted network for parent and professional resource sharing.

This project would build on the foundation established by WeBWork to integrate materials for the teaching of calculus developed by Dr. Timothy Cottrell of the Harley School in Rochester, New York and add new prototype functionality designed to engage students more actively in the learning process by asking dynamic interactive questions and enabling a sophisticated interactive graphing tool, while ...

This project expands upon current digital talking book technology and creates and deliversan Illustrated Digital Talking Book (IDTB), which improves upon current technology by providingaccessible graphs, maps, diagrams, or other images. These books give readers control of audio-basedcontent playback and permit examination of raised-line and textured imagines in a traditional bookformat. Readers to ...

Classroom teachers need formative assessment tools that give them easy and accurate information on student perfomance. Large scale assessments provide accountability data useful in evaluating progress across states and within school districts, but are not designed to directly impact classroom practice. Research shows us that student performance on standardized test can be impacted by test anxiet ...

THE GOAL IS AN INTERACTIVE COMPUTER PROGRAM TO FACILITATE NEEDS ASSESSMENT, DECISION- MAKING, GOAL SETTING, AND TRACKING ACROSS SERVICE PROVIDERS FOR MEETING THE NEEDS OF DISABLED INDIVIDUALS. THE PROPOSED APPROACH IS A RULE-BASED EXPERT SYSTEM AND MAN- AGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM INCORPORATING RULES FOR MAKING DECISIONS IN AREAS IN- CLUDING EDUCATION, RESIDENTIAL LIVING, FINANCE, HEALTH, SOCIAL IN ...

THIS PROPOSAL SPECIFIES THE DESIGN, DEVELOPMENT AND PRODUCTION OF VIDEODISC BASED INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS FOR THE VOCATIONAL EDUCATION OF DEAF ADOLESCENTS AND ADULTS. THE RESULTING PRODUCT WILL BE DEVELOPED BASED ON EXISTING AUDIOVISUAL FILMSTRIPS. IT WILL COMBINE A LEVEL 3 INTERACTIVE VIDEODISC (L3IV) AND A COMPUTER ASSISTED INSTRUCTION DISKETTE (CAI) ON THE TOPIC BASIC SOLDERING FOR ELECTRONIC R ...

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