SBIR Phase II: Computer-based co-reading for students with reading disabilities

这项小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段将产生一个系统，学生将在家里或学校使用该系统来提高他们的口语阅读能力。该产品将帮助数千个面临严重短缺教师的公立学区，这些学区为近1400万患有诵读困难或其他阅读障碍的学生提供特殊教育服务。该项目可以在几个方面提高教师的效率：(1)学生将独立练习，并从计算机获得适当的反馈，由教师根据学生的个人需求进行定制；(2)教师将被解放出来，专注于教授新概念或提供个性化的注意力来解决特定问题；(3)教师将拥有跟踪学生进展的数字数据，这是联邦残疾人教育法(IDEA)法案的强制要求。这个小型企业创新研究(SBIR)第二阶段项目将产生一个系统，学生将在家里或学校使用该系统来提高他们的口语阅读能力。该系统将使用基于云的基础设施和最终用户应用程序与学生进行基于计算机的协同阅读，这将(1)验证学生的阅读准确性，并在学生出错时提供补救，(2)允许学生的专业教师定制阅读体验和补救措施，并监控学生的进度，(3)使用引人入胜的书籍内容，(5)捕获学生口语阅读的音频，以及(6)向教师提供捕获的音频、使用自然语言处理的相应音频文本和学生的错误。这一系统将在公立学校进行评估，这些学校有足够多的学生向教育科学研究所申请什么是有效的信息交换所证书。这个奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II will produce a system that students will use at home or at school to improve their oral reading. The product will help thousands of public-school districts that are facing a severe shortage of teachers who provide Special Education services to almost 14 million students with dyslexia or other reading disabilities. The project could make teachers more effective in several ways: (1) students will practice independently, and receive appropriate feedback from the computer, customized by the teacher for the individual needs of the student, (2) teachers will be freed up to concentrate on teaching new concepts or to provide individualized attention to resolve specific problems, and (3) teachers will have digital data to track student progress, a mandated requirement of the Federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) act.This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II project will produce a system that students will use at home or at school to improve their oral reading. This system will use a cloud-based infrastructure and end-user application to perform computer-based co-reading with the student that will (1) validate the student’s reading accuracy and offer remediations when the student makes a mistake, (2) allow the student’s specialized teacher to customize the reading experience and the remediations, and to monitor the student’s progress, (3) use engaging book content, (5) capture audio of the student’s oral reading, and (6) provide to the teacher with the captured audio, the corresponding text of that audio using Natural Language Processing, and the student’s mistakes. This system will be evaluated in public schools with sufficient numbers of students to apply to the Institute of Education Sciences for What Works Clearinghouse certification.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.