Mobile Technology of Learning and Communication for Students With Disabilities

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Author(s): Sayaka Matsumoto (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Kuniomi Shibata (Tsuda University, Japan)and Akira Hattori (Komazawa University, Japan)
Copyright: 2020
Pages: 17
Source title: Handbook of Research on Software for Gifted and Talented School Activities in K-12 Classrooms
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Shigeru Ikuta (Otsuma Women's University, Japan)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-1400-9.ch012

Keywords: Education / Educational Technologies / Information Science Reference / K-12 Education

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This chapter presents a mobile application to support children and students with hearing difficulties and/or developmental disorders in interacting, understanding, and preparing for learning in their daily, school, and social lives. The authors think that a learning and communication support technique using a combination of characters, pictograms, and photographs is effective for people with disabilities. The application recognizes words spoken by their communication partners by using a speech recognition system and arranges the pictures corresponding to the words in a sequence. The results of two demonstration experiments show that PICTONGUE promotes mutual understanding between students who have hearing difficulties and/or developmental disorders by utilizing pictograms and photographs in combination with speech. The authors suggest that PICTONGUE supports visualization and feedback for planning and learning as a new way of communication for children and students with hearing difficulties and developmental disorders.

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