Design accessible documents for people with an intellectual deficiency
Date of post : 26/05/2015 13:34:15
People with an intellectual deficiency have difficulties understanding information
when it is not presented in a way adapted to their capacities.
Associations such as Change
and UNAPEI,
published guides providing guidelines to design communication documents accessible
to people with an intellectual deficiency
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The CELL, Center for Early Literacy Learning
Date of post : 25/05/2015 11:44:17
The CELL (Center for Early Literacy Learning) was funded by the Orelena Hawks Puckett Institute, North Carolina (http://www.puckett.org) financed by the American government which favors early literacy of children with developmental problems from birth to the age of 5. The website of CELL provides numerous resources for parents, professionals, teachers or anyone taking care of a child wi ...
A research paper about people with Down Syndrome speech
Date of post : 12/05/2015 18:19:48
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Vowel production by young adults with Down Syndrome
Date of post : 12/03/2015 18:50:36
People with Down Syndrome (DS) have great difficulties speaking.
However, as shown by a review of the scientific litterature on speech of people with DS
(Kent et Vorperian, 2013), very little research was conducted on the physical properties
of these people's speech. Speech therapists often refer to qualitative evaluations.
Speech research however provides methods based on signal analysis
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A Design Project on gaming in learning
Date of post : 12/02/2015 09:21:05
For our studies on the role of manual gestures in speech and language acquisition, we collaborated with a student from the Pôle supérieur de Design of Villefontaine (France), Maxime Barnier. The aim was to work on game and interaction scenari adapted to children in order to be able to involve children with disabilities, such as children with Down
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