Dr. Judith Zorfass and her research team at EDC are investigating the use of Visual Thesaurus to improve word knowledge and reading comprehension of social studies texts by middle school students with learning disabilities
Details for the work accomplished at EDC can be read in the following reports. The first was written in August 2006 and describes an exploratory study conducted in the Summer of 2006. The second was written in November 2006 and describes a pilot study conducted in the Fall of 2006. A final report was written in July 2007 and discusses the resuls of four pilot studies conducted between Summer 2006 and Spring 2007.