IoT-Based Serious Gaming Platform for Improving Cognitive Skills of Children with Special Needs

Improving collaboration skills for children with PDD-NOS through a multi-touch based serious game

A serious game with multi-touch interaction was developed in order to teach children with PDD-NOS how to collaborate. With the use of multi-touch technology two children can work simultaneously with the same computer and screen. The game consists of six levels with different mathematical problems designed to learn specific basic collaboration skills. The game was tested for four weeks at an ele...

Scale Validation of the FFIS for Mothers with Children with Special Needs

Objective: The aim of the present study was to investigate the features of the Family-Focused Intervention Scale (FFIS) for mothers of children with special needs. Materials & Methods: Descriptive-survey and validation research methods’ were applied for the survey. Participants were drawn from a sample of 200 mothers of/with children with special needs in were selected from the special schoo...

Application of eye tracking technology for screening and rehabilitation of children with special needs.

Eye tracking is a technology for measuring eye movements when looking at a point. The length of time to look at a particular situation, the sequence of observations, as well as points of attention are processed in the process of eye tracking and eye movements are identified by topics such as fixation, saccade, etc. Information about how the eyes move at a special moment has many potential appli...

An Arabic-Based Tutorial System for Children with Special Needs

In spite of the current advance of the use of computers in education in the Arab world, complete suites of solutions for students with special needs are very scarce. This paper presents an assistive system managing learning content for children with intellectual challenges. The system provides educational multimedia contents, inspired from the local environment, in different subjects such as ma...

Child Care for Children with Special Needs