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Captioning greatly facilitates participation in mainstream society for the hearing impaired. Though enabling software can help, captioning has remained a labor¿intensive and time-consuming process. Commercial applications of automated speech recognition have typically focused on dictation and speech-interactive services, but little effort has been directed towards applying speech technology to th ...

Captioning greatly facilitates participation in mainstream society for the hearing impaired. Though enabling software can help, captioning has remained a labor­intensive and time-consuming process. Commercial applications of automated speech recognition have typically focused on dictation and speech-interactive services, but little effort has been directed towards applying speech technology to th ...

Hatchuel Tabernik & Associates proposes to field test a new, on-line database service [KidSystems] for school-linked and school-day programs — supporting the accurate and timely measurement of student attendance, service provision, and outcome measures across a variety of supportive and educational services. KidSystems provides district, school-day, after school staff, evaluators and administrat ...

Children with significant hearing loss continually exhibit low reading levels, due in part to the difficulty they face upon entering school of understanding basal reading vocabulary, especially early critical “service words.” Service words are those words that cannot be learned through the use of pictures or objects (e.g., apple) but that constitute up to 75% of all words used in basal readers ...

Paper forms are labor intensive, time consuming, and prone to error. In order to address the shortcomings associated with paper forms, which the school districts use today, Infomosaic proposes to implement an electronic form framework. The framework is intended to allow any family of transactions currently carried out within county school districts to be converted from traditional paper to a compl ...

Animated Speech Corporation aims to validate the effectiveness of its 3D animated talking head software application platform to assist teachers and speech pathologists in the treatment of speech disorders. The platform consists of simple, user-friendly tools to create speech and language lessons which incorporate a lip readable accurate talking head, dubbed "Baldi®." Baldi's skin can be made tran ...

This SBIR Phase I proposal called VentureMap is a collaboration between MW Productions— producers of award-winning educational simulation software—and Dr. Sydney Zentall of Purdue University. Dr. Zentall will apply the results of her own research and that of her colleagues into effective interventions for students diagnosed with symptoms of ADHD toward improving and extending the design of MW ...

ROCKMAN ET AL (REA), an independent research, evaluation and consulting firm in San Francisco proposes to collaborate with WestEd, a nonprofit research, development, and service agency, to conduct a feasibility study of an online school improvement planning tool designed for use by schools and districts. WestEd developed the tool to support continuous school improvement in response to their work i ...

Learning can be significantly enhanced if a computer system could manipulate the knowledge based on learner needs and progress. Next generation learning management systems will behave more like programs than databases in that they will produce highly interactive and responsive content under algorithmic control. Before this can happen, how information and knowledge are stored in computers must be t ...

In Phase I, the project designed and constructed a prototype tilt-in-space wheelchair called the PALM (pediatric, adjustable, lighweight, and modular) that is specifically designed to meet pediatric needs. The goals of the Phase II project include: (1) to further refine the design of the PALM, (2) verifty functionality of the prototype through end-user testing and evalution on an Activities of D ...