InSTIL/ICALL 2004 Symposium on Computer Assisted Learning June 17-19, 2004 Venice, Italy

Italian Literacy Tutor - Tools and Technologies for Individuals with Cognitive Disabilities

Piero Cosi (1), Rodolfo Delmonte (2), S. Biscetti (3), Ron A. Cole (4), Brian Pellom (4), S. van Vuren (4)

(1)ISTC-SMCL CNR, Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie della Cognizione - Speech and Multimodal Comm. LabConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Padova, Italy Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Padova, Italy
(2) Dipartimento di Scienze Storiche, Giuridiche, Politiche e Sociali (DI. GIPS) dell’Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy
(3) Dipartimento Scienze del Linguaggio, Università Ca’ Foscari, Venezia, Italy
(4) CSLR, Center for Spoken Language Research - University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA

The Italian Literacy Tutor (ILT) is a project designed to implement a program of individualized, computer-aided reading instruction with the potential to dramatically improve reading achievement and learning from text in Italian, especially considering L2 teaching/learning frameworks or working with children with reading disabilities. The Italian Literacy Tutor is the Italian counterpart of the "Colorado Literacy Tutor" (CLT), a project developed at CSLR (Center for Spoken Language Research, Colorado University Boulder) for English. The ILT will mainly integrate two sets of literacy tools, the first one based on speech and animation technology, and the second based on language comprehension technology.

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Bibliographic reference.  Cosi, Piero / Delmonte, Rodolfo / Biscetti, S. / Cole, Ron A. / Pellom, Brian / Vuren, S. van (2004): "Italian literacy tutor - tools and technologies for individuals with cognitive disabilities", In ICALL-2004, paper 049.