Adaptive Reading Assistance for the Inclusion of Students with Dyslexia: The AGENT-DYSL Approach

Author

Tzouveli, Paraskevi ; Schmidt, Andreas ; Schneider, Michael ; Symvonis, Antonis ; Kollias, Stefanos

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. & Comput. Eng., Nat. Tech. Univ. of Athens, Athens

fYear

2008

fDate

1-5 July 2008

Firstpage

167

Lastpage

171

Abstract

Dyslexia is a major barrier to success in education and later on the job as reading skills are fundamental for personal competence development. Children with dyslexia have special learning needs (e.g., more teacher support), which currently only specialized institutions can provide. However, this takes children out of their peer group and causes social problems. On the other side, there is general-purpose reading support software, which are not geared towards children with dyslexia as they lack personalization. AGENT-DYSL brings together speech and image recognition as well as semantic technologies to build a truly adaptive reading support system for children with dyslexia.

Keywords

behavioural sciences; computer aided instruction; image recognition; speech recognition; AGENT-DYSL approach; adaptive reading assistance; children; dyslexia; general-purpose reading support software; image recognition; personal competence development; speech recognition; Adaptive systems; Computer science education; Educational institutions; Educational technology; Image recognition; Information technology; Learning systems; Physics computing; Speech recognition; User interfaces; adaptive system; dyslexia; personalization; reading skills;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Advanced Learning Technologies, 2008. ICALT '08. Eighth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Santander, Cantabria

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3167-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICALT.2008.236

Filename

4561657