computer lang learning

Thu Feb 25 15:45:53 UTC 1999

Mari,

I just finished editing two issues of Seminars in Speech and Language on
technology and speech/language assessment/intervention. They will be
published in May and August, 1999.  There were two papers on using computers
in language therapy- refs are (will be??)--

Cochran, P., & Nelson, L. (1999. Technology applications in intervention for
preschool children with language disorders, Seminars in Speech and Language,
20(3).

Wood, L., & Masterson, J. (1999). The use of technology to facilitate
language skills in School-age children.

In the meantime, I'm pasting in the ref lists from those two papers.
Probably more than you really wanted to know! Bottom line in both of these
papers is that computers don't really "assist" children in learning
language.  However, in the hands of a capable clinician or teacher, they can
be a wonderful resource/tool.

Happies,
Julie Masterson

Adams, L., & Waldron, C. (1998). Surfing for literacy. The Clinical
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