This book is part of the Literacy and Disabilities Study (LaDS) project

What is LaDS?

LaDS stands for Literacy and Disabilities Study. It is a national project that researched literacy programming, delivered to adults with disabilities, using the Speech Assisted Reading and Writing (SARAW) computer.

What is SARAW?

SARAW is a talking computer program that teaches basic reading and writing skills to adults with disabilities. SARAW stands for Speech Assisted Reading and Writing.

Learners can choose from a collection of stories written by other adult learners, or they can have the computer read their own writing. There is also an Activities section that has a sounding board to teach phonetics, and word games that help to develop word-recognition skills.

Here are pictures of the SARAW computer, showing the Read portion of the program and the Sounding Board.