Special Educational Needs
There are several types of special education, such as hearing impaired and mental disorder. In this project, our target is children without mental disturbance as their intelligences are same as normal children. We would like to provide them with the equal opportunity to learn with little assistance.
Hearing impaired implies partial inability to hear, which can be divided into several levels – mild, moderate, moderately severe, severe and profound. Hearing impaired is found to be more sensitive to high pitch as well. For hearing impaired children, their progress in learning is generally slower than normal hearing children. In classrooms, teachers will usually pair up hearing impaired students with normal hearing students which allow them to ask normal hearing students questions about the concept they do not understand. Teacher will also maintain visual focus on them in classroom. Furthermore, hearing impaired children are found to be weaker in reading and mathematics. They may encounter difficulties in learning these aspects. Thus, they need to pay more efforts to learn in order to have improvements. Apart from the hearing impaired, we also aim at providing a better visual image for the color blind. Red-green color blindness, which is known as the most common type of blindness, actually divides into different subtypes. And one of its sub-types, called deutan color vision deficiencies (Deuteranopia), is the most well-known form of color blindness. In specific, patients with this color blindness are considered as “green weak”. They are weak in discriminating small differences in hues from red, orange, yellow, green region in the light spectrum. Below are the pictures showing the color chart of normal people and deuteranopia people. Therefore, we aim to provide a platform which can be used by the hearing impaired and children with color blindness. We have developed sounds features to help hearing impaired. Besides, we aim to help children with color blindness to distinguish green and red color – the “yes” and “no” color. Green and red colors are commonly used to distinguish two opposite meaning, for example, “go” and “stop” in the traffic light. |