Intelligent serious games system for children with learning disabilities

Parents are often worried when their children have learning problems. Children with learning disabilities can have normal range intellectual quotient (IQ) but they may still have teachers and parents concerned about their capacity to assimilate new material and to develop skills. Often, these children may try very hard to follow instructions and to concentrate to reach good results. Yet, despite this effort, they fall behind. Therefore, it is very important to spread awareness in the society of the importance of the early intervention to help children with learning disabilities in their early stages in order to improve and enhance their learning capabilities. This can be done through adaptive, intelligent and informative ways. This paper contributes an intelligent web-based adaptive serious games system that helps children with learning disabilities at the kindergarten stage and through the early stages of primary education. The system targets children with normal IQ and relies on two valid tests; one for the IQ and one for diagnosis purposes. The latter is used to diagnose developmental disabilities for preschool age. This test serves as a basis for knowledge engineering for the developed rule-based inference engine.