There was a time when talking in the classroom was strictly forbidden. Those days are fading fast as Dragon NaturallySpeaking helps students and teachers at all educational levels better exploit their full potential just by speaking.
What's behind this growing trend? For starters, U.S. laws mandate support services for students with physical and learning disabilities. Dragon provides accessibility for students with a wide range of physical impairments that make traditional keyboard typing painful, if not impossible. By enabling them to create documents and emails up to three times faster than typing, Dragon helps special education students keep up with their non-disabled peers - even in a mainstream education setting.
Dragon has proven especially helpful for students with language-based learning disabilities, such as dyslexia, because it enables them to transfer their ideas into print more easily. Research also suggests that speech recognition can help dyslexic students achieve significant improvements in reading, decoding, spelling and comprehension by giving them the opportunity to practice their reading skills and positively influencing sound-character awareness. What's more, Dragon has been shown to improve core reading and writing skills for students of all abilities through heightened strategic engagement with print and language while dictating and correcting errors.
Speech recognition is gaining traction as an integral part of business education curricula too. With industry pundits like Bill Gates hailing speech and touch as the interfaces of the future, many forward-looking schools are integrating speech recognition into traditional middle school, secondary and post-secondary business courses to prepare students for the 21st century. What makes Dragon the ideal speech recognition choice for these courses? It's remarkably easy to use. It's highly accurate - even for non-native speakers or students who speak with strong regional accents. And it's available in many languages to help students receiving bilingual education services.
Teachers love Dragon because it dramatically streamlines the assessment of student assignments. Consider this: for each assignment, teachers can spend up to 20 minutes handwriting comments on each paper. With 25 students or more per class, this can easily add up to 8 hours per assignment. With Dragon, teachers can read and respond to student assignments quickly and easily because they're not constrained by time-consuming handwritten feedback. It's a win-win for everyone; teachers enjoy better work-life balance and students benefit from more comprehensive and detailed assessments.
Interested in learning more? Download our information-packed whitepaper, "Dragon NaturallySpeaking: Helping All Students Reach their Full Potential."
Posted
10-29-2009 10:47 PM
by
mgeremia
