[IAEP] hearing impaired education and Sugar

[Andrea Mangiatordi (Gmail)]

On 16/12/2009 15:04, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I think the Ceibal / LATU team has also been looking at various
> accesibility tools for Sugar. I've been talking with them recently
> about a 'Zoom' tool for kids with limited vision (hoping to post about
> this soonish) , and I think they've done some work with a screen
> reader.
>
> CC'ing Guadalupe Artigas and Emiliano, as I suspect they may have been involved.

I was there during the first tests on this and helped the LATU team with 
the magnifier.

As far as I know, hearing impaired don't have actual problems using a 
computer: they usually have problems with very complex sentences, with 
word meaning and other similar matters, like synonymy, antonymy and 
hyponomy. I met the children of a school for deaf in Maldonado and they 
use their XO like the others, working a lot with the record activity and 
with games like memorize, which help them binding concepts with their 
written form.

The right question to be asked is "does Sugar include any activity aimed 
at reinforcing basic linguistic skills?"

Hope this helps

Andrea

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