People with intellectual disabilities should develop reading and writing skills since children. Otherwise, they will have additional difficulties in their daily life activities, as buying in a store, taking medicaments or getting a job. In this paper we present a prototype that uses tangible interfaces and augmented objects to support a literacy method for children with intellectual disabilitie...

To examine visual and verbal coding strategies, I asked children with intellectual disabilities and peers matched for MA and CA to perform picture memory span tasks with phonologically similar, visually similar, long, or nonsimilar named items. The CA group showed effects consistent with advanced verbal memory coding (phonological similarity and word length effects). Neither the intellectual di...

The goal of this study was to determine the relationship between stereoacuity and proficiency in fine and gross motor skills. Stereovision is one of the information sources for accurate perception of objects in depth, and it is related to performance on motor skills tasks. Studies have shown that children of primary school age with mild intellectual disabilities perform worse than typically dev...

It is quite known that defects in brain function especially in children usually may result in neuro-developmental disorders such as intellectual disability, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), autism, and learning disabilities which is reflected in disabilities to communicate, move or behave. These symptoms usually change with age, although some children may develop permanent disab...

All children need access to good quality eye care, and this must include children with disabilities. Childhood disability is very common. The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that there are at least 93 million children with disabilities worldwide, which equates to one in twenty children. 1 Childhood disability is particularly common in low-and middle-income countries. Children with dis...