Introduction: Technology as a Support for Literacy Achievements for Children at Risk .-Early Childhood 1. Effects of an Adaptive Game on Early Literacy Skills in At Risk Populations -- 2. Giving All Children a Good Start: The Effects of an Embedded Multimedia Intervention for Narrowing the Vocabulary Gap Before Kindergarten -- 3. Video Storybooks - A Way to Empower Children at Risk  -- 4. Print to Pixel: Foundations of an E-Book Instructional Model in Early Literacy  -- 5. What Can Better Support Low SES Children's Emergent Reading? Reading E-Books and Printed Books with and without Adult Mediation -- 6.The Effects of Multimedia on Early Literacy Development of Children at Risk: A Meta-Analysis  -- School Children 7. Teachers' Use of Assessment to Instruction (A2i) Software and Third Graders' Reading Comprehension Gains -- 8. An Online Learning Community as Support for A1- Risk Students' Literacy Growth-Findings, Implications, and Challenges -- 9. Stimulating Self-regulated Learning in Hypermedia to Support Mathematical Literacy of Lower-achieving Students  -- Special Educational Needs 10. Promoting Emergent Literacy of Children at Risk for Learning Disabilities: Do E-books Make a Difference? -- 11. Early Literacy Interventions using ICT in Children with SLI -- 12. Making a Difference: Using Laptops as a Support for Spelling Improvement among Students with Learning Disability -- 13. Nonliteral Comprehension Deficits in Children with Learning Disabilities: Implications of Brain Imaging Technology -- 14. Use of Technology for Literacy Acquisition among Children with Communication Difficulties.