Exercises for German-Speaking Children with Dyslexia

Abstract

Abstract. In this work-in-progress we present a computer-based method to design German reinforcement exercises for children with dyslexia. From different schools, we collected more than 1,000 errors written by children with dyslexia. Then, we created a classification of dyslexic errors in German and annotated the errors with different language specific features, such as phonetic and visual features. For the creation of the exercises we took into account the linguistic knowledge extracted from the analyses and designed more than 2,500 word exercises in German that have been integrated in a game available for iOS. The game and the resource of dyslexic errors are available online 1 and they are, to the best of our knowledge, the first contributions of this kind for German.

Game-Based Interventions as Support for Learning Difficulties and Knowledge Enhancement in Patients with Dyslexia: A Systematic Literature Review

“…One of the specific learning disorders is dyslexia which is a learning disability hindering a smooth pathway to become literate. It is a persistent deficit to reach a [3,15,19,20,[23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45] Word game 26 [13,14,18,[46][47][48][49][50] Action video game 8 [22,51,52] Strategy game 3 [21] Adventurous game 1 [53] Educational game 1 [54] Narrative game 1 [55] Puzzle game 1 4.9 given below shows the list of these games in existing literature from 2010 to 2020. Figure 4.3 signifies that most of the relevant research work has been done in the first category of word games.…”

DysMusic

“…For the creation of the exercises we took into account the linguistic knowledge extracted from the analyses and designed more than 2,500 word exercises in German that have been integrated in a game available for iOS. The game and the resource of dyslexic errors are available online 2 [6,7].…”

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