(GIST OF SCIENCE REPORTER) Assistive Application for Children with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia

[December-2022]

IIT Kanpur develops novel application to assist children diagnosed with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia.
The invention named Assistive Application for Children with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia (AACDD) has been invented.
The application comes embedded with a device that helps children learn easily.
Dyslexia and Dysgraphia are neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by slow and inaccurate word recognition.
Developmental dyslexia causes difficulties with accurate and fluent word recognition and spelling, whereas Dysgraphia refers to the inability to write coherently.
This novel assistive application provides a training module currently available in the Hindi language for school-going children between classes 1 to 5.
The application is a touchscreen based interface that involves auditory feedback, putting haptic sensation and motor movement to facilitate the acquisition and reproduction of Hindi letters. Later on, it is expected to include other languages as well.
The application assists children with a tracing task, where they have to follow a blue and a pink dot to trace Hindi letters. As a child starts tracing from the blue dot to the pink dot, a yellow line accompanies.
The Assistive Application for Children with Dyslexia and Dysgraphia (AACDD) from IIT Kanpur is unique in terms of integration of audio, visual, and haptic inputs, and retraining the brain networks through manipulation of basic geometric patterns of words – like lines, circles, etc.