Elijah is an eight year old that lives in Hana High and Elementary school in Hana, Hawaii. In September 1997, the beginning of his third-grade year, Eli could not yet read. To help him read they used interactive phonics programs. The programs would show a letter and then a picture that would start with that letter. Using the program his reading and writing skills had improved over the year. By the time that the year ended, Eli was reading at the early second-grade level, with a growing sight vocabulary of about one-hundred words.
David is 7 years old and has had a visual impairment since he was born due to albinism. David has had a hand held monocular device since he was three years old. He uses it to read things like street signs. With his hand monocular device, he is able to read at a fourth or fifth grade level even though he is only in the third grade. David also uses CCTV, a closed circuit TV system, which enlarges print or hand-written text.
Jack is 12 years old and he has trouble reading and writing. They found a program called reading for the blind and dyslexic. He can listen to the words being read on his Mp3 player while he reads them in the book. He still used them now but he can comprehend things in text just like the other students. Reading and writing is now so much easier for him.
