Automatic Generation of Personalised Basic Skills Summary Reports

Links

Here are some links to other web sites concerned with literacy, numeracy, accessibility and readability.

Accessibility Checkers

• Bobby web page accessibility checker

Associations

• Association for Computational Linguistics
• Australasian Language Technology Association
• Cognitive Science Society
• EACL
• ELSNET
• International Reading Association
• Society for Text and Discourse
• User Modelling Inc.

Graded Readers

• UK Cambridge English Readers Level Chart
• UK Penguin Readers (adults and children)
• USA Reading Rockets (kids)

Journals

• Computational Linguistics
• Computer Speech and Language
• Document Design
• Focus on Basics
• Natural Language Engineering
• The Reading Matrix: An International Online Journal

Literacy and Numeracy in the Media

• UK BBC News Report on UK Literacy 22 Jan 2001

Literacy and Numeracy Sites

• Australian Council for Adult Literacy ACAL
• Canadian National Literacy Database (NALD)
• UK Basic Skills Agency
• UK DfES Initial Assessment Information
• UK Lead Scotland, Access to learning
• UK Leardirect Scotland - community learning
• UK Moser Report on literacy and numeracy
• UK National Literacy Trust
• UK Qualifications and Curriculum Authority
• UK Qualifications and Curriculum Authority - Basic Skills
• UK Qualifications and Curriculum Authority - Framework
• UK Scottish Executive - Education and Training - Lifelong Learning and Social Inclusion
• USA Montgomery County Public Schools, Early Childhood Technology Literacy Project
• USA NCSALL Focus on Basics, Journal for practitioners
• USA National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy (NCSALL)
• USA National Institute for Literacy
• USA SIL International Literacy

Literacy and Numeracy Statistics

• Australian Literacy Statistics
• UK National Statistics
• USA National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL)

Related Research Projects

• Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER): The iAchieve at home Project. This project "provides individual feedback, assesses English and Mathematics Years 3 to 10 and tracks your child's learning progress".
• Project LISTEN: A Reading Tutor that Listens
• The REAP Project: Reader-Specific Lexical Practice for Improved Reading Comprehension

Plain English Guides

• Boeing Simplified English Checker
• Health Literacy Consulting
• Plain Train - Plain Language Online Training
• USA Plain Language Action and Information Network

Specialist Groups

• dyslexics.org.uk
• Dyslexia Parents Resource