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Title:
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ACHIEVING ADVANTAGE IN THE EDUCATION OF YOUNG CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS |
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Author(s):
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Filipe Mota Pinto, Teresa Guarda, Carla Fernandes, Micaela Esteves |
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ISBN:
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978-972-8939-46-5 |
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Editors:
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Piet Kommers and Pedro Isaías |
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Year:
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2011 |
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Edition:
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Single |
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Keywords:
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Young children, Multimedia, disability, human-computer interaction, learning process. |
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Type:
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Full Paper |
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First Page:
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83 |
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Last Page:
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90 |
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Language:
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English |
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Full Contents:
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Paper Abstract:
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Information technologies based learning methods have achieved more affective and user-friendly results than others more traditional. This evidence is more effective when the target audience is young children with special needs. Despite their common availability as pedagogical tools, information technologies are still scarce or sparse, namely to those students. Among others reasons, this stems from the gap between social or market needs and software market or even scientific research applied to this field. Addressing the usability and the user interface, this paper introduces a software system directed to young children less than 13 years old with special needs at vision and sound levels. The project presented intents to explain the definition, the origin and the way it works of some actual electronic devices used in their quotidian, like television, telephone, electricity or personal computer. The work was developed under pedagogical guidelines specially directed to young children with disability. The analysis, programming and testing phases were conceived accordingly young children participation and testing. |
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