Desarrollo y evaluación de un sistema de aprendizaje interactivo para niños con discapacidad intelectual y problemas de aprendizaje

Abstract

Nowadays a large part of the population worldwide suffers from some kind of disability and generally their rights are violated, especially in education. As a response to this problem, the concept of inclusive education emerged. In Ecuador, in the year 2011, came into force the new Organic Law of Intercultural Education, which establishes statutes that protect the right to education of this group of people. But this inclusion implies new challenges such as the use of didactic resources that facilitate the inclusion of these children and encourage the development of their knowledge. For this reason this project becomes important because through it is intended to improve the learning in the areas of Mathematics, and Language and Literature of children with intellectual disabilities and learning problems who attend the third year of basic education, in addition to measuring their degree of acceptance of the developed system using gesture recognition software. In order to achieve these results, educational software was developed, which jointly with the Kinect device allows children to interact with it through body movements. Finally, the system was tested with a group of children, who, after working with the system, showed considerable improvement in knowledge of the developed topics, besides of a high degree of acceptance of children toward the system. Due to the favorable results obtained with it, the future work would consist in making the system accessible to schools and even homes in order to spread its impact.