2 with students diagnosed with disabilities. Students in this study attended a high school life
skills class in a rural school district during the fall 2013 semester. Four students participated in
this study, two males and two females. Specifically, the purposes of this study were to (a)
describe students’ processing of the augmented reality enhanced books by analyzing their
spontaneous and prompted verbalizations; (b) identify students’ perceived vocabulary word
knowledge through a survey that is completed before and after the augmented reality reading
activity; (c) examine students’ vocabulary word knowledge as mean scores of criterionreferenced
worksheets that were completed before and after the augmented reality activity and by
their responses to prompted questions within the AR book. This study was guided by the
following central research question: How does the use of an augmented reality book that is
enhanced with layers of technological, instructional, and conceptual scaffolds, influence
vocabulary knowledge and verbal responses of students who are diagnosed with special needs?