"Moby-Dick is my favorite:" Evaluating a cognitively accessible portable reading system for audiobooks for individuals with intellectual disability

Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 290-298

  Davies, Daniel K ^a   Stock, Steven E ^a   King, Larry R ^a   Wehmeyer, Michael L ^b  

^a Ablelink Technologies   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BOOK; COGNITION; COMPUTER INTERFACE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MALE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MIDDLE AGED; READING; RECORDING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BOOKS; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; MALE; MENTAL RETARDATION; MIDDLE AGED; READING; SOFTWARE; TAPE RECORDING; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 55449134140     PISSN: 19349556     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1352/1934-9556(2008)46[290:MIMFEA]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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