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| 20090011392 | SAT Word Cards - A set of word cards for teaching students specific words in preparing for the SAT. These word cards provide a method of learning SAT words by utilizing a word's part of speech, definition, spelling, and usage in a sentence. The cards assist a student in self-learning as well as self-checking when learning words. The matching letters on either side of the word cards provides a way of self-checking. The answer is found by matching the letters on one side of the word card with the letters on the reverse side of that same word card. | 01-08-2009 |
| 20090029328 | DEVICE AND METHOD FOR COMPUTER-ASSISTED LEARNING - A method for the computer-assisted learning of orthography, the method includes executing the following steps by a data processing system:
| 01-29-2009 |
| 20090098516 | Interactive grammar teaching methods and system therefor - Interactive grammar teaching methods and apparatus are presented. Grammar lessons, grammar sentences, grammar exercises, and grammar tests are stored in respective repositories. Based on queries, grammar lessons are produced, and grammar exercises and tests are generated. A feedback generator receives completed grammar exercises and tests, tabulates expected answer and received answer pairs for each question. Grammar lessons may be recalled during an exercise. Test results may further be sorted by grammar lesson. Grammar lessons or lesson specific grammar exercises or tests are produced in respect of questions answered incorrectly or in respect of lessons in respect of which the level of proficiency demonstrated in a received completed grammar test is found below a desired level of proficiency. A combination of all grammar lessons and a list of grammar lessons produced, and a list of received completed grammar exercises and tests are compiled into a grammar manual and workbook. | 04-16-2009 |
| 20090226861 | Language skill development according to infant development - Methods and devices for stimulating an infant to develop additional phonetic categories, including: estimating the infant's development; and selecting an auditory piece appropriate to the estimated development. Wherein the auditory piece comprises isolated phonemes in the infant's parent's voice. | 09-10-2009 |
| 20090280458 | Combination teaching and learning kit and method - A combination teaching and learning kit is provided. Such combination teaching and learning kit includes a chart member for at least one of free standing and attachment to a wall, a table, and an item of furniture. A plurality of card members having predetermined indicia disposed on at least first predetermined side thereof and a securing mechanism disposed on at least an opposite second predetermined side thereof for releasably attaching the card members to such chart member. | 11-12-2009 |
| 20100003649 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR EDUCATING - A method of educating includes providing a collectible trading card game with a plurality of trading cards. Each card may contain educational information including a consonant, vowel, number or mathematical operator and the cards are used to form a properly spelled word or to form a mathematically correct equation. In some forms, the method includes providing a game with a playing field and a set of game components with game component types having a predetermined power for affecting play of the game by affecting a power, effect, or value of the game component. The level of skill necessary to play the game may be varied by selectively implementing or disregarding the predetermined power of the game components. An educational game includes first and second game components with different expressions, powers, point values, and identifiers for distinguishing game components and facilitating game play. | 01-07-2010 |
| 20100092928 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEACHING - A system and method of teaching proper letter and word writing is utilized by presenting a plurality of colored, measured rods, and clay with which letters are formed according to a prescribed plan. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100092929 | Cognitive and Linguistic Assessment Using Eye Tracking - Methods for assessing cognitive and linguistic abilities by tracking and recording the eye movements of a patient in response to predetermined verbal and visual stimuli. The methods incorporate conventional eye-tracking technology to acquire eye-fixation location and duration measures for testing linguistic comprehension, working memory, attention allocation, and the effect of semantic associative priming. Visual stimuli presented in the methods are carefully designed to reduce visually distracting features. Verbal stimuli are carefully designed to control for numerous linguistic features. | 04-15-2010 |
| 20100209895 | Playing Cards with the Added Function of Teaching and Learning English Phonics - Playing cards with an added function of teaching and learning English phonics are provided. In addition to the index labels of A to K and the corresponding symbols of clubs, diamonds, spades, and hearts printed on conventional playing cards to enable conventional functions thereof, the disclosed playing cards are provided with single letters or letter strings from the English alphabet, exemplary English words, image patterns, and serial numbers to facilitate teaching, self-learning, and guided learning of pronunciation and numbers. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20110045447 | METHOD FOR PROVIDING DATA FOR LEARNING CHINESE CHARACTER - A method for providing a data for learning a Chinese character wherein the data for learning the Chinese character is provided in response to a user input within a computer screen to facilitate a learning of the Chinese character are disclosed. | 02-24-2011 |
| 20110065071 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF WORD IDENTIFICATION LATENCY - A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of word identification latency of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: ( | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110065072 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF WORD RECOGNITION SENSITIVITY - A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of word recognition sensitivity of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: ( | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110065073 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENT OF WORD DETECTION LATENCY - A method is presented to address quantitative assessment of word recognition sensitivity of a subject, where the method comprises the steps of: ( | 03-17-2011 |
| 20110104646 | Progressive synthetic phonics - Synthetic phonics is where the beginning reader first learns the “parts” of words or: 1.) the visual images letters; 2.) the names of the letters; and 3.) also learns the brief spoken sounds (phonemes) assigned to each letter and to each digraph. | 05-05-2011 |
| 20110123966 | APPARATUS FOR DEVELOPING AND/OR AUGMENTING COMMUNICATION SKILLS - An apparatus for developing, promoting and/or augmenting communication skills includes an apparatus base dimensioned for positioning relative to a support. The apparatus base defines longitudinal, vertical and orthogonal axes, and a reference plane inclusive of the longitudinal and orthogonal axes. The apparatus base includes a top support surface arranged at a predetermined angle greater than 0 degrees relative to the reference plane. The top support surface has an article retaining element associated therewith. At least one icon containing article having communication media adapted for conveying information is releasably mounted to the article retaining element of the top support surface. The top support surface may be arranged at an angle ranging from about 10 degrees to about 60 degrees relative to the reference plane. In one embodiment, the top support surface is arranged at an angle of about 45 degrees relative to the reference plane. | 05-26-2011 |
| 20110244433 | Letter play - A spelling exercise in game format. The exercise consists of mini sets of letters two or more of which are used in combination to form a final letter set from which letters are chosen to form words. The mini sets are tested prior to production to insure that any final letter set made will have words scrambled within it. A version of the fore mentioned exercise that has mini sets made of three vowels and mini sets made of five consonants. A mini vowel set and a mini consonant set are randomly chosen to make a final letter set. A version of the fore mentioned exercise that uses playing cards to randomly select the mini sets. A version of the fore mentioned exercise that uses a multi sided spinning top to select the mini sets. | 10-06-2011 |
| 20110287395 | Methods and apparatus for teaching reading and math skills to individuals with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and other neurological impairments - The present invention includes a phonetic alphabet with clarifiers and modifiers that aid in the teaching of reading skills to individuals with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and other neurological impairments when the present invention letters are connected horizontally in series with clarifiers and modifiers to form a word, a phrase, a sentence, and/or a paragraph. The present invention further includes mathematical symbols for teaching math skills to individuals with dyslexia, dyscalculia, and other neurological impairments when predetermined geometric shapes are arranged to form numbers of a base 10 counting system that are capable for using in additional, subtraction, multiplication, division. The present invention of mathematical symbols includes whole numbers, real numbers, integers, fractions, and decimals. The present invention also includes 2D and 3D tools and methods of using same. | 11-24-2011 |
| 20120015333 | Method and System for Presenting Interactive, Three-Dimensional Learning Tools - A system includes an education module ( | 01-19-2012 |
| 20120077156 | DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS APPLYING OPTICAL IDENTIFICATION DEVICES AND RELATED DATA PROCESSING AND OPERATION METHODS AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCTS THEREOF - A data processing system applying optical identification devices includes a printed matter having a plurality of encoded data printed thereon; an optical identification device for reading at least one encoded data from the printed matter; and a data processing device coupled to the optical identification device and storing a plurality of content data for reading the at least one encoded data through the optical identification device, obtaining at least one first data corresponding to an operation and one second data corresponding to one of the content data from the read encoded data and performing the corresponding operation of the first data on the one of the content data that the second data corresponds to. | 03-29-2012 |
| 20120164611 | ENGLISH LEARNING SYSTEM - The present invention relates to an English learning system, and more specifically, to an English syllable pronunciation and spelling learning system for the learning of words (including phrases and sentences), in which a learner sequentially recognizes syllables and spellings at a level of detail which is not the word so that the efficiency of memorization of the pronunciations and spellings of words can be improved, by outputting English words onto a screen under control in such a way that the spellings of the words, or the spellings of the syllables separated from the words, are displayed with a space or visual effect (coloring and writing with spaces) or else a time effect (sequentially outputting to screen) and an auditory effect. | 06-28-2012 |
| 20120183935 | LEARNING DEVICE, DETERMINATION DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, DETERMINATION METHOD, AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT - According to one embodiment, a learning device includes an input receiving unit, an inferring unit, and a learning unit. The input receiving unit receives an input of first data representing a sentence, rear boundaries of elements having an anaphoric relation within the sentence, and a correspondence relation between a first element that is an antecedent and a second element that is an anaphor. The inferring unit infers a range of the first element and a range of the second element that are determined by front boundaries and the rear boundaries by inferring the front boundaries of the first element and the second element based on the first data and a predetermined rule. The learning unit learns criteria used for determining whether or not there is the anaphoric relation in an arbitrary sentence based on the range of the first element and the range of the second element. | 07-19-2012 |
| 20120276505 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RATING A WRITTEN DOCUMENT - A system and method for rating an essay writing using a statistical system so it can be applied on any language with very few changes. The system comprising multiple modules capable of providing a style score, a punctuation score, a spelling score, a quotation score, an enrichment score, a syntax analysis score, a focus score, an idea score and a cohesion score. The scores are then combined to provide a final overall rating of the essay. | 11-01-2012 |
| 20130059276 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LANGUAGE LEARNING - Exemplary embodiments are directed to language learning systems and methods. A method may include receiving an audio input including one or more phonemes. The method may also include generating an output including feedback information of a pronunciation of each phoneme of the one or more phonemes. Further, the method may include providing at least one graphical output associated with a proper pronunciation of a selected phoneme of the one or more phonemes. | 03-07-2013 |
| 20130149681 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY GENERATING DOCUMENT SPECIFIC VOCABULARY QUESTIONS - A system and method outputs vocabulary quizzes and/or games that are based on text on an input document, such as a webpage. The system and method are further adapted to provide such quizzes in a manner that is tailored to a particular user. | 06-13-2013 |
| 20130177879 | WIRELESS PROCESSING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A digital media device comprising an integrated circuit configured to send and receive content on receipt of a serial identification number unique to the personal digital media device, a processor and a display screen. The personal digital media device's processor utilizes a radio frequency integrated circuit to send and receive content with, for example, a personal computer or other host processing device. | 07-11-2013 |
| 20130209974 | Exemplar Descriptions of Homophones to Assist Visually Impaired Users - The disclosed implementations provide systems, methods and computer program products that provide computer accessibility for visually impaired users by audibly presenting exemplary descriptions of homophones. Commonly used characters can be described by using a common multi-character word that includes the character. Rarely used characters can be described using an Ideographic Description Sequence (IDS) that splits characters into individual components. Each component can then be read aloud individually as a description of the homophone character. | 08-15-2013 |
| 20130216983 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LEARNING ENGLISH - The various phonemes of a language to be learned are each assigned a unique color. The student learns to associate a particular color or color group with its particular sound or sound group. Since there are no exceptions, the student will now easily be able to speak a new, previously-unread word (or even language), if the word has been colored correctly with each letter or set of letters representing a phoneme is properly colored with its assigned color. | 08-22-2013 |
| 20130260347 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TEACHING A LANGUAGE - A method and apparatus for teaching grammar structure to a student. The apparatus comprises a representation of a human face a language base structure overlaid on the human face, a plurality of language patterns, each language pattern corresponding to one of a unique verb types selected from the group consisting of action verbs, linking verbs, general verbs, give and take verbs and cause and effect verbs and a pointer adapted to follow the language pattern. The method comprises identifying the verb and verb type to be used in the sentence, selecting a language pattern corresponding to the verb type, providing a representation of a human face having a language base structure thereon, overlaying the language pattern over the language base structure and beginning at a starting position of the language pattern, moving a pointer along the language pattern to determine a correct sequence of each word in the sentence. | 10-03-2013 |
| 20130323689 | FILL-IN-THE-BLANK AUDIO-STORY ENGINE - Embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to an Audio-Story Engine that includes a repository of prerecorded audio files that, when played in a certain sequence, with user provided recordings placed throughout, tell a story. To obtain the user provided recordings, the Audio-Story Engine asks the user to make audio recordings of various words or phrases. For example, the Audio-Story Engine may ask the user a series of questions in order to record and store the user's audible responses. Upon completion, the Audio-Story Engine plays back a completed story that incorporates the user's audio recordings by playing an appropriate user recording after playing a prerecorded audio file. This is repeated several times in sequence to form a seamless, customized, audio story. In addition, the Audio-Story Engine may alter the pitch or sound of the user's recorded words to match the pitch of the prerecorded story. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20130323690 | PROVIDING AN UNINTERRUPTED READING EXPERIENCE - An uninterrupted reading experience can be provided by calculating a vocabulary level for a user in a first language and comparing difficulty levels of words within a document in the first language to the vocabulary level of the user in the first language. Each word of the document having a difficulty level that exceeds the vocabulary level of the user in the first language can be selected. | 12-05-2013 |
| 20140093846 | LEARNING WORD GAME AND METHOD OF INSTRUCTION - A system and method for providing an educational grade-level based word game that incorporates kinesthetic, tactile, and auditory learning styles for use in teaching children and other learners how to spell in an entertaining manner. The game correlates grade appropriate words to the common core language arts standards. The game may be portable and uses direct social interaction between real people. The game can incorporate a foreign language as well as sign language. The physical game set may include, but is not limited to, playing cards, one regular numbered game die, one six-sided graphical cube, and a kinesthetic implement, such as an elastic rope or a bouncy ball. | 04-03-2014 |
| 20140186806 | PUPILLOMETRIC ASSESSMENT OF LANGUAGE COMPREHENSION - The present invention is a method for assessing a patient's linguistic comprehension using a pupil response system comprising at least one pupillometer configured to measure the patient's pupil responses. The method includes (a) providing the patient with a list of verbal stimuli comprising at least two sets of verbal stimuli, each set of verbal stimuli comprising one or more verbal stimuli; wherein the two sets of the verbal stimuli differ substantially from each other in terms of the difficulty level; (b) presenting to the patient one verbal stimulus at a time from the list of verbal stimuli; (c) measuring and recording the patient's pupil response data for a period of time ranging from 200 milliseconds to 10 seconds during the presentation of each stimulus; and (d) analyzing the pupil response data to assess the patient's linguistic comprehension. | 07-03-2014 |
| 20140199667 | CONVERSION OF ALPHABETIC WORDS INTO A PLURALITY OF INDEPENDENT SPELLINGS - A method of automatically converting alphabetic text written in a text based language into a non-text based language. The method can include parsing the text to identify at least one word. The method also can include via a processor, identifying within a lexicon database data corresponding to the word, wherein the data corresponding to the word identifies at least one pictograph or symbol selected from a group of pictographs or symbols consisting of between twenty seven and thirty three distinct pictographs or symbols that visually look different than the text, wherein each pictograph or symbol corresponds to a unique speech sound of the text based language. The pictograph or symbol can be rendered in a view. | 07-17-2014 |
| 20140220517 | Apparel-based learning system - A group of vocabulary words are selected for students at an educational institution. The vocabulary words together with corresponding definitions are put on clothing items worn by different students at the educational institution. The students at the educational institutional are tested regarding the group of vocabulary words and their definitions are before the clothing is worn and some period of days after the clothing started being worn. Selected words from the group of vocabulary words are selected for removal from the group based on the results of the second testing. New clothing items with new vocabulary words together with corresponding definitions are worn by students at the educational institution in place of the clothing items with the word selected for removal from the group. | 08-07-2014 |
| 20140272822 | SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR GENERATING A HIGH-LEVEL VISUAL VOCABULARY - Systems and methods for learning a high-level visual vocabulary generate inter-visual-word relationships between a plurality of visual words based on visual word-label relationships, map the visual words to a vector space based on the inter-visual word relationships, and generate high-level visual words in the vector space. | 09-18-2014 |
| 20140302465 | PROCESS FOR DISPLAYING AN ACTION VIGNETTE WHILE TEXT OF A PASSAGE ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACTION VIGNETTE IS CORRECTLY READ ALOUD - A method for teaching a person, such as a child, to read aloud is disclosed. The method is implemented as a voice activated, visual software application that provides a visual display of a story as the person reads the words of the story. The method provides pronunciation assistance to the person, which in the software includes a simulated “teacher” that helps the person with assistance in reading the story. The method progresses through a sequence of story passages which together represent the entire story. The method progresses to each story passage upon successful completion of the current story passage by the person reading the story, such that the method will not allow the visual story to progress for the reader if a word is not read correctly out loud. | 10-09-2014 |
| 20140335483 | LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY DETECTION IN SOCIAL APPLICATIONS - Social networking applications may be improved by incorporating a user's language proficiency to make content suggestions to the user. A language preference of a user, which may represent one of a plurality of signals, may be received. A signal may be, for example, an online activity of the user, a text generated or received by the user, or content requested by the user. At least one of the plurality of signals may be analyzed using a machine learning program. A machine learning program may be trained on data for a test group of users with a known language proficiency. A user-assigned language proficiency may be incorporated as a signal in training a machine learning program. The language proficiency of the user may be determined based upon the analysis of at least one of the plurality of signals. Content may be presented to the user based upon the language proficiency of the user. | 11-13-2014 |
| 20150111182 | Reusable Magnetic Letters, Numbers, and Shapes - These magnetic, write-on/wipe-off letters, numbers, and geometric shapes enable a child to learn to write and spell quickly. Primarily, they are individual pieces that are packaged as a set and have a grooved write-on/wipe-off surface with a magnetic base, so as to adhere to any magnetic surface enabling them to be manipulated quickly and easily, which will accelerate the process of learning to write and spell. | 04-23-2015 |
| 20150348434 | METHOD FOR TEACHING HIGH FREQUENCY WORD RECOGNITION - A method for teaching high frequency word recognition comprising the steps of selecting a first series of words for a small group of students, initiating a first round in a Follow the Teacher instructional procedure with the teacher reading each word in rapid succession with each student simultaneously viewing each word and reading it immediately after the teacher, repeating the reading of words in the group at the fastest possible speed with the teacher leading and carefully observing the students and their eye movements to make certain that they are in fact looking directly at the words and not really following the sound of the teacher's voice or that of the group, repeating the procedure until the teacher is satisfied that each student has made significant progress and has attained a high level of visual retention for the words as well as an instant sight recognition of the words or has an improved ability to rapidly name words after the teacher. | 12-03-2015 |
| 20160253909 | MULTISENSORY LITERACY INSTRUCTION SYSTEM | 09-01-2016 |
