The Voice of Text-to-Speech Technology
One Possible Solution for Struggling Readers
Changing Perspectives/Overcoming Barriers
Traditional reading strategies, designed to support the ability to decode and
make the connection between sounds (phonemes) and letters (graphemes),
are effective for the majority of students.3,4 There are some students, however,
for whom these approaches are insufficient. The problem is one of information
processing. By the time the word is successfully decoded, the child may have
neither the energy nor the capacity left to understand and utilize the content.5
As a result, many of these students enter into a vicious cycle of withdrawal from
text. Frustrated, they often stop reading, losing the text exposure necessary for
reading development and, ultimately, for the acquisition of knowledge and
understanding in all subjects.