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News on Dom’s paper Two Different Communication Genres and Implications for
Vocabulary Development and Learning to Read http://edsource.org/2015/study-says-reading-aloud-to-children-more-than-talking-builds-literacy/82045

New Yorker, February 2, 2015

Dom gave a talk on 26 March, 2013 at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California.

Dom gave a talk at University of California, Berkeley, on March 15, 2013, entitled Technology Assisted Reading (TARA): Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally.

Dom gave a talk at Florida Atlantic University on February 28, 2013, entitled Technology Assisted Reading: Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally.

Dom gave a paper and a workshop on February 18-20, 2013 presented to the1st International Conference on Technology for Helping People with Special Needs (ICTHP-2013). Al-Imam Mohammad Ibn Saud Islamic University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Dom gave a talk at google on December 19, 2012. The talk is now on youtube, and called Technology Assisted Reading: Children Acquiring Literacy Naturally.

Dom’s interview with Zina Jawadi, a high school junior from Los Altos. November 19, 2012

Dom applied for a USA patent. November 5, 2012. Method And System For Representing Capitalization Of Letters While Preserving Their Category Similarity To Lowercase Letters. Patent Application Number 13/669,522, November 6. 2012.

Dom’s ideas about acquiring literacy naturally were discussed in Pacific Standard Magazinel Infant Intelligentsia: Can Babies Learn to Read? And Should They?

Dom gave a talk at the Machine Learning Summer School  on July 17th at 5:15 pm at the Stevenson Event Center, Stevenson College, University of California at Santa Cruz

Listen to Paul Verschure interview Dom on acquiring literacy naturally.

Dom participated in the summer school Barcelona Cognition, Brain, and Technology, BCBT11. His talk, Technology Assisted Reading Acquisition (TARA): Acquiring Literacy Naturally is available here.

Dom applied for a U. S Patent Massaro, D. W. (2011a). Method And System For Acquisition Of Literacy. Patent Application Number 13/253,335, October 5, 2011.

Dom gave talk in the Emeritus Lecture Series at UCSC. Universal Literacy: The Digital Age Engages the Learning Brain in the Music Recital Hall, Nov 3, 2010.