Dislessia e tecnologie: quali evidenze di efficacia?

Abstract

In this work we wonder whether, to what extent and in what contexts technologies can be effective for dyslexia. For this purpose we accomplished, through the search tools most well-know, a selection of studies conducted on this subject by seeking first meta-analysis or critical reviews, then moving on to collect and compare experimental research such as that presented significant and reliable.

The result of this investigation has led to identification of two major reviews, to which were added two more studies prior to 2004, and six research carried out since 2005 up to now, concerning speech synthesis, speech recognition, Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI), hypermedia and multimedia of the electronic text, reading and spelling programs and phonological awareness programs.

The findings reveal that technologies, that have greater efficacy, relate to the software drill & practice phonological-learning oriented, speech recognition and other tools to support electronic writing.