Title :
Teaching communication skills to hearing-impaired children
Author :
Alonso, Fernando ; De Antonio, Angélica ; Fuertes, José L. ; Montes, Cear
Author_Institution :
Univ. Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Abstract :
The Mehida multimedia system offers hearing-impaired children an easy and appealing way to learn how to communicate with their hearing and deaf peers. Mehida helps them acquire various communication skills simultaneously: sign language, speech, fingerspelling, lip reading, reading, and writing. Didactic activities and games teach the different means of communication. A character shaped like a pear assists and guides the children, explaining each activity and encouraging the children to identify with it throughout the process
Keywords :
computer aided instruction; multimedia computing; software packages; Mehida multimedia system; communication skills; didactic activities; fingerspelling; hearing-impaired children; lip reading; sign language; speech; teaching; writing; Auditory system; Computer aided instruction; Computer science education; Costs; Deafness; Handicapped aids; Intelligent systems; Multimedia systems; Speech; Writing;
Journal_Title :
MultiMedia, IEEE
