Specific learning disabilities describe problems in learning specific tasks which can not be explained with general cognitive difficulties, sensory acuity or general motivation. The most common learning disabilities are developmental dyslexia and dyscalculia.
Children and adults affected by developmental dyslexia typically are slow readers, display limited reading comprehension, and have inconsistent orthography speed and accuracy problems as well as difficulties in segmenting and manipulating phonemes in words. Approximately 10% of the population suffers from dyslexia.
People affected by dyscalculia have difficulties performing mathematical tasks. Sometimes simple tasks such as estimating the change in a shop are hard to solve. Dyscalculia affects about 5% of the population. Causes for dyslcalculia are considered to be difficulties in mapping amounts to numbers and figures as well as an under-developped internal number line.
At the CGL, we develop novel multi-sensory training software for both dyslexia and dyscalculia. In Both projects, we use computer graphics to circumvent the difficulties and to illustrate the learning content. Both software programs hence consist of a multimedia framework. Additionally, we use student modelling in both projects to have the software adapt to the user's skills and support his/her learning process in the best way possible.
The content to be learnt and the skills to adapt to differe in the two projects. The specific knowledge about dyslexia and dyscalculia is contributed through strong collaborators from neuroscience. This project is hence also a multi-disciplanary project.
You can find more information about the two projects on our project pages: Project Pages. These pages describe the software and the user studies in more detali.
Project Members
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Past Members
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Collaborators
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- Christian Vögeli
- Gian-Marco Baschera
- Monika Kast
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- Lutz Jäncke
- Martin Meyer
- Alberto Giovanni Busetto
- Michael von Aster
- Joachim Buhmann
- Severin Klingler
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