E-Learning Contents for People with Disabilities: a Standardized Design Approach
There are simple tasks that we perform every day without even thinking about it. Take writing as an example. For most of us, the building blocks to writing started in Pre-School or by a parent handing us a crayon and asking us to trace letters. We learned how to properly hold a writing instrument and we struggled until we could master control over our developing skill. For those with dysgraphia or dyslexia, keeping up with learning and written expression can be a great challenge. With the study of e-learning contents for people with disabilities, technology is being put to use to help children and adults who suffer from these learning disabilities to be able to write and even make learning to write fun for them while they are doing it. When The Pen Feels Like A Sword For a person with a learning disability like dysgraphia, or an inability to write coherently, being asked to pick up a pen or pencil and write words on a page can be an anxiety-producing experience. Imagine struggling to make arches and lines in all the right places in your mind while watching it all fall apart into illegible scribbles on a page. For many with this issue, the only recourse for them is to stop writing altogether. Sadly, there are many who are not able to write at all due to some form of dysgraphia. Thankfully, with such robust integration of technology into our every day lives, apps and software are now available […]