DISABILITY YOUNG CHILDREN LEARNING PROCESS SUPPORTED WITH MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARE: CASE STUDY

Micaela Esteves, Filipe Pinto, Audrey Silva, Ana Duarte

2008

Abstract

Throughout technological resources, learning methods have achieved more affective and user-friendly results than in traditional ways, even when the target audience are young children with special needs. Addressing the usability, this paper introduces software directed to young children less than 13 years old with special needs at vision and sound levels. This application 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. Along this paper, all the work developed under pedagogical guidelines specially directed to young children with disability it is presented and also the analysis, programming and testing phases are explained.“Disabled persons have the inherent right to respect for their human dignity (…) whatever the origin, nature and seriousness of their handicaps and disabilities, have the same fundamental rights as their fellow-citizens….” (Declaration on the Rights of Disabled Persons, United Nations resolution December 1975).

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Esteves M., Pinto F., Silva A. and Duarte A. (2008). DISABILITY YOUNG CHILDREN LEARNING PROCESS SUPPORTED WITH MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARE: CASE STUDY . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-40-1, pages 375-379. DOI: 10.5220/0001709203750379


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis08,
author={Micaela Esteves and Filipe Pinto and Audrey Silva and Ana Duarte},
title={DISABILITY YOUNG CHILDREN LEARNING PROCESS SUPPORTED WITH MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARE: CASE STUDY},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={375-379},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001709203750379},
isbn={978-989-8111-40-1},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - DISABILITY YOUNG CHILDREN LEARNING PROCESS SUPPORTED WITH MULTIMEDIA SOFTWARE: CASE STUDY
SN - 978-989-8111-40-1
AU - Esteves M.
AU - Pinto F.
AU - Silva A.
AU - Duarte A.
PY - 2008
SP - 375
EP - 379
DO - 10.5220/0001709203750379