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Designing a Game for Pre-Screening Students with Specific Learning Disabilities in Chinese

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Zikai Alex Wen,

Huamin QuAuthors Info & Claims

ASSETS '22: Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility

Article No.: 77, Pages 1 - 5

https://doi.org/10.1145/3517428.3550384

Published: 22 October 2022 Publication History

Abstract

Most students with specific learning disabilities (SLDs) have difficulties in reading and writing. The SLDs pre-screening is crucial because the golden period for therapy is before six years old. However, many students in Hong Kong receive SLDs assessments after the golden period. Also, the SLDs pre-screening is challenging, especially in a language with the logographic script but without prominent sound-script correspondence (e.g., Chinese, Japanese). To make pre-screening SLDs in Chinese more effective and efficient, we designed a new comprehensive pre-screening game for SLDs in Chinese (i.e., dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyspraxia). Notably, we designed a Chinese morphological awareness puzzle that challenges students to recognize different words made up with the first character that is identical and the second character that is different, such as樹枝 (literally means tree branch),樹幹 (literally means tree truck),樹葉 (literally means tree leaves), and樹根 (literally means tree root). We experimented with students, which showed that our game can effectively pre-screen students with SLDs in Chinese. Our work contributes an approach to quick SLDs in Chinese pre-screening, potentially useful for other logographic languages (e.g., Japanese).

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TLT.2023.3255882

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Fung KTang KLui TSin KLee LQu HSong S(2024)ADPS—A Prescreening Tool for Students With Dyslexia in Learning Traditional ChineseIEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies10.1109/TLT.2024.338429017(1454-1470)Online publication date: 2024
https://doi.org/10.1109/TLT.2024.3384290
Fung KLee LHui PSong S(2024)Can Underprivileged Children Learn Effectively at Home? A Six-Month Study of Game-Based Traditional Chinese Learning During the Pandemic LockdownIEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies10.1109/TLT.2023.325588217(294-309)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1109/TLT.2023.3255882

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