Begin with Our Introduction

Introduction to Voice & Text movies (V&T)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:12:17 -0500

Almost every student can immediately improve his or her decoding, automaticity and fluency if you correctly match the presentation of text to that student’s exact needs. Our program achieves phenomenal success with elementary students and beginning students of all ages, including all adult beginners. It is excellent as well for ESL students and Special Needs Students. Furthermore, all these students will instantly start to enjoy reading, once they have the right voice and text presentation for their individual needs. Reading avoidance and reading anxiety will simply disappear within minutes. See for yourself.

With our program, students advance from reading one word at a time to reading short phrases, to reading punctuation intervals, to reading sentences. Many of these techniques can be combined and have never existed before. For example, a student can now also read a word at a time in a short phrase, or a phrase at a time in a punctuation interval, or a punctuation interval at a time within a sentence and paragraph.

When the software presentation matches the student’s exact needs, issues of anxiety, overwhelming challenge, and short-term memory deficit disappear immediately.

At the end of the interval, no matter how long, the student is asked to take everything just learned and read that word, or phrase, or punctuation interval, or sentence out loud fluently, before hearing it read fluently. In this way we seamlessly combine decoding, automaticity and fluency. Whenever a student cannot sound out a word or makes a mistake, he or she echoes the correct pronunciation. No one ever leaves a phrase without getting it “right”. Accurate voice and text correlation is key at this stage of reading development. Learn much more about our Voice and Text Program.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

Adjustable Software
With our actual software many features are adjustable as you read. Here is a list of variables with the choices in each.
There a number of voices to choose between, male and female.
The speed of the speaking voice can be adjusted to be slower or faster.
The text can advance automatically at a choice of speeds, or it can progress interactively, where you press “enter” in order to continue.
Any book or text on the Internet can be read any of these ways. You choose what you want to read. You have a great choice for age appropriateness and subject matter.
With the software, you can instantly change the settings to match the complexity of what you are reading and your current level.
The length of the “cognitive interval” can be adjusted for each person’s current needs.
The number of times the whole “section” of text is repeated can be changed from 0>1>2 times.

Please Note: Just one program is all you need to do all these 11 “Voice and Text” presentations, and all the “Silent Reading” presentations, and all textbooks and novels in e-text.

V&T Movie #1: One Word at a Time on the Screen (3 speeds)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:11:57 -0500

This approach is excellent for students in Pre-school, Kindergarten and Grade 1 who are just starting to read, as swell as adult beginners of all ages. Students only have to deal with one word at a time. At the end of the sentence they hear the sentence repeated twice. They try to say in their mind how it will end the second time through. Thus, they work on structured phonetics and voice and text correlation with the visual presentation, and with developing auditory memory and fluent reading with the audio portion. At this level these beginners would be overwhelmed with seeing a full sentence on the screen.

Dyslexic students can not make any reversals with other words, because there no other words on the page.

Students with Macular Degeneration can easily read with both voice and text presented this way.

Stroke victims and brain trauma patients can not get overwhelmed by too much text.

The student experiences doing something correctly on each word, sooner or later. Every word ends up a success story.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #2: Word by Word in Phrase (3 speeds)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:10:26 -0500

Many severe dyslexics need to learn the common, frequent words in very short expressions, or they are overwhelmed by the task, and it is so difficult that they forget what they have already read by the end of the sentence. This is a great way to get students to master the 100 frequent words with this literature based, structured phonetics.

Students are taught to read what is there, not to guess.

Students will quickly try to decode once they realize that they are going to hear/get the right voice and text correlation. Just this framework causes an instant change in attitude.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #3: Word by Word in Punctuation Interval (3 speeds)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:09:05 -0500

A number of troubled readers simply can not let go of reading a word at a time, in favor of reading a short phrase at a time. These students find this approach ideal. They get to read each word the way they want, and they get to read with fluency afterwards.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #4: Word by Word in Sentence (3 speeds)

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:08:09 -0500

Often the literature that young students are reading has short sentences. In addition many troubled readers have developed excellent auditory memory. For both these reasons it works out well to have troubled readers read this way when they are ready to advance to longer cognitive intervals, but refuse to read more than one word at a time.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #5: One Phrase at a Time

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:07:45 -0500

This is a very friendly tool for beginning to read more than one word at a time. Students can easily grasp the concept of reading by phrases and how much it improves their comprehension and speed.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #6: Phrase by phrase in punctuation interval

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:06:32 -0500

This is a transition tool from just beginning to read by phrases to reading a phrase at a time in a sentence. Students do not spend very long at this level. Almost everything that can be done here, can be done just as well in the next tool up, which is extremely popular.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #7: Phrase by phrase in Sentence

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:06:03 -0500

This is the workhorse tool. This is where most of the Voice and Text remediation occurs for the 18 bad reading habits. This is the key tool for second and third grade. It is also the key tool for mid-level ESL students of all ages.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #8: One Punctuation interval at a time

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:05:37 -0500

One of the major goals of reading is to get students to process print by punctuation intervals, making sure they understand each punctuation interval by itself, and then how it relates to the next punctuation interval, or the rest of the sentence. Presenting text a punctuation interval at a time is very helpful for these purposes.

Secondly, students reading history or philosophy or other dense material, often find that having the punctuation interval repeated, after they have worked through it the first time, makes all the difference in whether or not they understand the text.

Thirdly, different students and adults need different amounts of time to process what they have just read. Being able to pause at the end of punctuation intervals is a lifeline for many readers. This pausing teaches them transferrable skills for reading on their own with regular books.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #9: One Punctuation Interval at a Time Within Sentence and Paragraph

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:04:27 -0500

As one gets to be a better reader, the amount of time necessary to pause after phrases and punctuation intervals drops. Simultaneously, this enables one to think quickly about relationships of punctuation intervals in the sentence. This tool facilitates this development. Once students learn the speed and pause rhythm that works for them, they can transfer this to their regular reading.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #10: One Sentence at a Time

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:03:59 -0500

Reading a sentence at a time with fluency is one of the great goals of reading improvement. This tools helps people learn the rhythms of doing this, which they can then apply to their regular reading.

Many students get overwhelmed if there is more than a small amount of text on the screen at a time. This is true for dyslexics and also for people dealing with brain trauma and recovering from stroke. It is also true for many others dealing with issues of low vision, including wandering eye and differential focus issues. Reading just a sentence at a time is ideal for these people.

Furthermore, the sentence presented this way can be repeated once or twice if necessary, for those who need to do this for increased comprehension.

This tools is one of the staples of our assistive technology.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

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V&T Movie #11: Sentence at a Time Within Paragraph

Mon, 10 Nov 2008 01:02:52 -0500

The ultimate in basic reading skill is to be able to read and understand a sentence at a time within the paragraph and pagination of the page, including titles and sub-titles. This tool enables this.

Because the speed of the voice can be increased, the voice of this tool can match the speed of the inner voice, and lag just behind. This provides a way to read books very satisfactorily, if assistive technology is desired. Alternatively, the patterns and lessons learned can transfer directly to reading hard cover books and paperbacks.

Directions
Go through these movies in order. The right setting will be the one between the movie that is too slow and the movie that is too fast. You will know, or ask for our help.
Try to pronounce each word, or group of words, before you hear the computer pronounce the word(s).
If you were not able to say anything, or said the wrong thing, echo (repeat) what you hear. Do not leave a group of words without saying them correctly.
Take everything you learned the first time through the words and say the group of words fluently before, or with the sound, when the text is repeated out loud.
Try to say the group of words smoothly. If you do not get it smoothly pronounced with the voice the first time the group of words is repeated, say it afterwards, or with the voice, the second time you hear it.

Contact Us for a Free consultation