DOI: 10.5176/2251-1679_CGAT16.19
Authors: Moutaz Saleh, Jihad Mohamad Aljaam
Abstract:
Children with intellectual challenges (IC) are growing up with extensive exposure to computer technology. Computer software and assistive devices have the potential to help these children in their education, career development, and independent living. In spite of the current proliferation of the use of computers in education in the Arab world, most of the software applications, tools, and web sites that IC children interact with are designed without consideration of their special needs, making these elements less effective or completely inaccessible for them. This paper presents an assistive edutainment system using ontology-based multimedia to support children with IC in their basic concepts of daily living tasks and elementary sciences. The contents development is pedagogically based on Mayer’s Cognitive Theory of Multimedia Learning combined with Skinner’s Operant Conditioning Model. The system aim at enhancing those children understanding, communications, and thinking skills. The effectiveness of the proposed platform has been tested and the results show clear advances on such children learning capabilities and improved their performance.
Keywords: Intellectual Challenges; Learning Model; Assistive Technology; Edutainment, Multimedia Tutorials; Ontology.
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