Optical Character Recognition Project
This project aims to examine the academic improvement for learning disabled students in the “regular classroom” who are given access to a variety of scan and read systems to assist them with decoding paper text. A secondary outcome of this project is examining the impact of OCR technologies on the acquisition of the English language both written and spoken for ESL learners
Assistive Technologies:
- Read & Write Gold or Read & Write Gold for Mac
- Portable Scanner (Docupen)
- Wizcom Quicklink Reading Pen
Schools involved in project:
- Connaught Community School – Area IV
- Keeler Elementary – Area III
- Piitoayis Family School – Area IV