Assistive Technology for Preliminary Diagnosis of Learning Disability (LD) among Children
2019 International Conference on Machine Learning, Big Data, Cloud and Parallel Computing (COMITCon), 2019
Learning Disability (LD) causes difficulties in areas of behavior and learning and thus managing ... more Learning Disability (LD) causes difficulties in areas of behavior and learning and thus managing it is vital for people suffering from such disabilities. In India, 5-10% of children suffer from one of the learning disabilities. It can be assumed that the number might be high as it could remain undiagnosed in many of them. Also, it not known that how learning disabilities are diagnosed and managed among children. There lie no evidences in Indian Context about how learning disability is managed among children. Hence, a survey was conducted in schools of Delhi to determine what strategies the schools use to diagnose and deal with learning disabilities. The results depicted that the primitive pen-paper methodology was being used for preliminary diagnosis. Therefore, latest technologies such as Assistive Technology can be of a great help in eliminating this primitive approach and thus contribute in a cost-effective way of diagnosis. A conceptual framework using assistive technology is proposed for the diagnosis which would optimize the entire process of diagnosis. Such a model would not only help in the diagnosis of LD but also in promoting the broader functional outcomes of assistive technology.
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