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Looks at the growing use and importance of electronic encyclopedias and reviews `Compton's Multimedia Encyclopedia.' `The New Grolier Electronic Encyclopedia '; Hardware requirements; Information retrieval; Implications for use; Future technology and uses.

Examines the effectiveness of using colored plastic overlays or nonoptical, tinted lens filters in improving reading efficiency in severely disabled readers, particularly those who suffer from a visual perceptual problem known as scotopic sensitivity syndrome (SSS). Screening for SSS; Reduction of the input of specific troublesome wavelengths of light.

Focuses on the use of computer-generated voice prints in diagnosing oral reading processing. Technical procedures for producing voice prints; Analysis of voice prints synchronized with Information Reading Inventory procedures or modification; Examination of pauses and drawn-out pronunciation representing processing time.

Discusses issues related to the use of children's literature and audio-visual technologies by school teachers as the core of their reading instruction. Advantages offered by an audio recording; Factor which can contribute to the effectiveness of visual technology on a child's appreciation of literature.

Describes technologies that provide insight into brain structure which may be of interest to reading educators. Computerized axial tomography (CAT); Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI); Positron emission transaxial tomography (PETT); Regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF); Brain electrical activity mapping (BEAM).

Describes the use of television closed-captioning and research on how the use of closed-captioning can be used successfully for reading instruction with normal hearing children.

Examines the use of computers to assess the literary needs of students. Looks at expert systems and their evolution, as well as interactive computer assessment.

Features Xerox/Kurzweil Personal Reader, an optical scanner that reads a greater range of typeset or typewritten text and converts it into highly naturalistic speech. Inclusion of Electronics Unit with intelligent character recognition software; Prices; Compatibility with a wide range of word processing.

Focuses on the use of computers to transfer information from one place to another and how this technology can be harnessed by the classroom teacher and the reading specialist. Components that are required for such a transfer to occur; Education-related services offered by independent information service CompuServe; Ways that a reading teacher can ensure that students have obtain the necessary telecommunications competencies.

Focuses on the evolution of reading technology in the U.S. Development of motion pictures for education in 1894; Introduction on educational radio in 1910s; Educational television; Skinner teaching machines; Language laboratories; Videotape players; Computers.

Discusses computer programs with educational and teaching potential in reference to Stewart Brand's book "The Media Lab". Assessment software that helps students in a range of applications from basal placement to informal reading inventory assessments; Role of emails in promoting communication and interaction with students/teachers from different places; Importance of technological literacy.