Lake Washington School District Students Hear Clearly with Help from Califone
Five years ago, Lake Washington School District (LWSD), located east of Seattle, was looking to install new technologies that would better serve its increasingly more digital-savvy student population. Approximately 2,000 educators and more than 23,500 students, including a growing number of English-language learners, were asking for new ways to utilize technology within the walls of their 49 high-performing schools....[more]
Research
Supporting teacher & student uses of audio enhancing equipment
Focused read-alouds have been shown to promote vocabulary development....[more]
Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 4, pp 165-178. Synthetic speech and computer aided reading for reading disabled children. Recommend the use of recorded speech to support decoding and comprehension in children with reading difficult...[more]
Teacher Reports
Headphones
As the Fast ForWord Leader in our elementary school, we've chosen to use the Superior Stereo™ headphones because they help create individualized instruction for our elementary students in their Computer Reading program....[more]
Multimedia Players
Listen to news broadcasts-Listen to cassette recordings of history....[more]
