[lbo-talk] A possibly useful tool for Carrol and others (WASRe:willingham on the NAEP scores)

[Carrol Cox]

No, I'm not sure. But there is a difference between becoming blind at an
early age and becoming even semi-blind at the age of 78, not near 80.
Habits of comprehension that have been entrenched for 70 years are
changeable I presume, but not easily or quickly.

Carrol

Joseph Catron wrote:
> 
> On Sun, May 2, 2010 at 4:54 PM, Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu> wrote:
> 
> And audible text cannot be  merely browsed
> > in to determine inbterest. One needs legible print for that.
> >
> 
> Are you sure about that? A blind classmate and former housemate of mine, now
> a technology instructor at one of the big blind service agencies here in the
> city, frequently opined that all of us would eventually switch to
> text-to-speech technology since, according to her, we could absorb far more
> words/unit of time that way. I haven't done the research to find out if she
> was right about that, and also haven't switched over myself, but will note
> that she doesn't seem to have any disadvantages, compared with me, when it
> comes to casual browsing, serious reading, or anything in between.
> 
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