Research Article
Visualization of Turkish for Autistic and Mentally Retarded Children
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2493, author={Yılmaz Kılıcaslan and \O{}zlem Ucar and Erdem Ucar and Edip Serdar G\'{y}ner}, title={Visualization of Turkish for Autistic and Mentally Retarded Children}, proceedings={2nd International ICST Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare}, publisher={IEEE}, proceedings_a={PERVASIVEHEALTH}, year={2008}, month={7}, keywords={Educational Technology; Autism; Mental Retardation}, doi={10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2493} }- Yılmaz Kılıcaslan
Özlem Ucar
Erdem Ucar
Edip Serdar Güner
Year: 2008
Visualization of Turkish for Autistic and Mentally Retarded Children
PERVASIVEHEALTH
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.PERVASIVEHEALTH2008.2493
Abstract
The use of software technologies for supporting the education of disabled children continues to increase both in quantity and quality. L2I is a set of computer programs that assists the education and training of autistic and mentally retarded children. These children are known to have difficulties in grasping fairly abstract concepts. L2I is intended to circumvent the abstractness of linguistically encoded conceptual structures via visual images. The software has also the potential to teach and/or assist a variety of basic skills including reading, writing and communicating. Each component constituting L2I has been tested with a group of students with autism and mental retardation in a special education center. In the light of the observations made over these tests, this paper presents how L2I can be benefited from in a special education program.