Ferramenta de auxílio à crianças com dislexia para dispositivos móveis.

Abstract

For many years the children who cannot keep up with the academic performance of his colleagues suffered from preconception and rejection, being branded as illiterate, lazy and careless. Today, due to various studies, it is known that most of these children suffered from a learning disorder. The most incident of them is the dyslexia, a disorder that primarily impairs reading ability and writing of the subjects, and that according to latest research, reaches about 17% of world population. With the advancement of technology can be seen what happens, really, in the brain of a dyslexic child and, from that information, seek strategies for execution a correct treatment of the subjects. Some works done with groups of dyslexic children brought satisfactory and proven results after execution of a remediation program, composed of various learning strategies. The brain regions responsible for identifying phonemes and graphemes that were slightly activated on whom had the disorder begun to gradually increase your activity. The objective of this research is to develop a support tool for dyslexic children, using learning techniques of a remediation program outside the school environment. The tool will be available for the Android operational system, which is the most widely used mobile platform in the world and with a version in Portuguese. Besides that, it should be a tool to arouse the interest of the child, so she can really enjoy to exercising the language. Using the application within your own home the subject is away from the pressure of other colleagues, thus being able to perform the tasks in the time it deems necessary, repeat them as often as desired and choose the best times to perform the exercises carefully. Were studied some similar existing applications on the market, but there are found no studies in the literature that prove the effectiveness thereof, in the treatment of dyslexia. The developed tool has based on a master's thesis in which it was executed one phonological remediation program in a group of children who demonstrably resulted in a significant improvement in reading and writing abilities of dyslexic subjects. Using the techniques developed in this thesis, the application aims to achieve satisfactory results as it combines information technology with the phonological remediation program to develop a more attractive and interactive tool for this public.