Alternative and augmentative communication (AAC) is designed to assist individuals who cannot speak when interacting with others. AAC is used by those with a wide range speech and language impairment, including congenital impairments. The technologies Girdmark Inc. developed and the authors presented in this chapter may be classified as an example of AAC.
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School Rehabilitation Practices Using Multimedia-Enabled Dot Codes Technology
Shigeru Ikuta (Otsuma Women's University, Japan), Sachiko Ueda (Yoshida Special Needs School, Japan), Minori Yamazaki (Isesaki Special Needs School, Japan), Junko Niwa (Kiryu Special Needs School, Japan), Norihisa Moriya (IrumaWakakusa Senior High School for Special Needs Education, Japan), Hiroyuki Fujieda (Matsudo Special Needs School, Japan), Noriko Saotome (Special Support School of the Cooperative Faculty of Education of Utsunomiya University, Japan), and Shinya Abe (Gridmark Inc., Japan)
Copyright: © 2021
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DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-7630-4.ch011
Abstract
Original teaching materials with multimedia-enabled dot codes were created for use with students with various disabilities. The “Post-it-like” sticker icons on which dot codes were printed were used there; each sticker icon could be linked with up to four multimedia mediums, in addition to up to four voices/sounds. Touching a dot code icon with a speaking-pen enables audios to be replayed, and touching a dot code icon with a dot-code reader enables multimedia to be replayed. Four software packages to create contents with dot codes were developed by Gridmark Inc. The sticker icons, a speaking-pen and dot-code reader, and software packages are distributed to schoolteachers for free; they can now create original self-made teaching materials for students in their classes. This chapter presents basic information on school activities, performed in promoting sounding out words, learning sound-symbol correspondence, word recognition, and text reading.