Open AccessAssistive systems for children with dyslexia and autism
Author(s) -
Harini Sampath,
Jayanthi Sivaswamy,
Bipin Indurkhya
Publication year - 2010
Publication title -
acm sigaccess accessibility and computing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1558-2337
pISSN - 1558-1187
DOI - 10.1145/1731849.1731855
Subject(s) - dyslexia , autism , computer science , neural system , function (biology) , developmental dyslexia , typically developing , cognitive psychology , psychology , human–computer interaction , developmental psychology , reading (process) , neuroscience , linguistics , biology , philosophy , evolutionary biology
Autism and dyslexia are both developmental disorders of neural origin. As we still do not understand the neural basis of these disorders fully, technology can take two approaches in helping those affected. The first is to compensate externally for a known difficulty and the other is to achieve the same function using a completely different means. To demonstrate the first option, we are developing a system to compensate for the auditory processing difficulties in case of dyslexia and to demonstrate the second option we propose a system for autism where we remove the need for traditional languages and instead use pictures for communication.
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