[BLOG POST] 21 Chrome Extensions for Struggling Students and Special Needs

Technology can be a powerful tool to assist students with special needs or any sort of learning challenge. In particular the Chrome web browser allows users to install a wide variety of web extensions that provide tools that can help all learners, regardless of ability level.
In this blog post we will take a look at 21 Chrome web extensions that can assist students in five main categories:

• Text to Speech
• Readability
• Reading Comprehension
• Focus
• Navigation

Some of the tools fit into more than one topic, but each is only listed once. Certainly this list does not cover all of the useful web extensions available for struggling learners, but it is a great place to begin. In addition to the list of extension, I have also linked in the video and help guide from a webinar I did a while back on “Google Tools for Special Needs”.

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[RESEARCH REPORT] Reading Comprehension in College Students after Acquired Brain Injury – WEB SITE

Purpose: This exploratory study builds upon the small body of existing research investigating reading comprehension deficits in college students with acquired brain injury (ABI).

Method: Twenty-four community college students with ABI completed a battery of questionnaires and standardized tests to characterize self-perceptions of academic reading ability, performance on a standardized reading comprehension measure, and a variety of cognitive functions of this population. Half of the participants in the sample reported traumatic brain injury (n = 12) and half reported non-traumatic ABI (n = 12).

Results: College students with both traumatic and non-traumatic ABI cite problems with reading comprehension and academic performance post injury. Mean performance on a standardized reading measure, the Nelson Denny Reading Test (NDRT), was low to below average and was significantly correlated with performance on the Speed and Capacity of Language Processing test (SCOLP). Injury status of traumatic versus non-traumatic ABI did not differentiate results. Regression analysis showed that measures of verbal attention and suppression obtained from the California Verbal Language Test-II (CVLT-II) predicted total scores on the NDRT.

Conclusions: College students with ABI are vulnerable to reading comprehension problems. Results align with other research suggesting that verbal attention and suppression problems may be contributing factors.

via Traumatic Brain Injury Resource Guide – Research Reports – Reading Comprehension in College Students after Acquired Brain Injury.