DocumentCode
407034
Title
Computerized games sequency for written language acquisition in special education
Author
Amate, F.C. ; Oliveira, H.A.D. ; Barreiro, M.S. ; Frère, A.F.
Author_Institution
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Sao Paulo Univ., Brazil
Volume
4
fYear
2003
fDate
17-21 Sept. 2003
Firstpage
3536
Abstract
School, on its initial grades, has writing and reading as a main goal. Parents anxiously expect their children to acquire these abilities. These expectatives are a problem to children who don´t have the expected performance, which reduces their self-steem and contributes to giving up learning. If a child in process of written acquisition presents any physical disability, even a small one, the situation gets worse. If the deficiency is serious, it is more easily recognised and the students have the opportunity to receive special treatment. If it is a small deficiency, it tends not to be recognised and is frequently taken as stubbornness or lack of interest. This article presents a sequence of computational games, directed by an specific didactic process, which respects individual particularities of each child, with peripheral adapted to motor difficulties, which allows the alphabetization of children with learning difficulties.
Keywords
behavioural sciences computing; computer games; educational computing; children alphabetization; computational games; computerized games sequence; didactic process; lack of interest; learning difficulty; motor difficulties; parents; physical disability; reading; school; special education; stubbornness; students treatment; written language acquisition; Computer peripherals; Computer science education; Concrete; Connectors; Delay; Instruments; Magnetic heads; Mice; Software maintenance; Writing;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, 2003. Proceedings of the 25th Annual International Conference of the IEEE
ISSN
1094-687X
Print_ISBN
0-7803-7789-3
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/IEMBS.2003.1280915
Filename
1280915
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