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Online Dyslexia Intervention via Technology Support; Study in Greece

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Social Computing and Social Media (HCII 2023)

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Dyslexia is a learning disorder that affects reading, writing and spelling from the early school years and results from dysfunction of specific areas of the brain responsible for language processing. Children with dyslexia do not develop difficulties with their intelligence, hearing or vision, but experience a big gap between their learning ability and typical in-school standards. In Greece, it is estimated that 5% -10% of children suffer from dyslexia and that their reading and writing difficulties often influence their abilities to speak, listen, write, read and comprehend expression in native language. Therefore, teaching in-person or in class may not always be efficient for those children.

Internationally, distance learning for pupils with dyslexia and learning difficulties has already been developed, while in Greece it began during the period of COVID19, when students were forced to move towards the online education system. The purpose of this work is to analyze the advantages, disadvantages, benefits, and limitations of technological tools for online dyslexia learning. Moreover, the adaptation methods for efficient strategies in distance teaching, so that students with dyslexia can be trained remotely just as well as in face-to-face education, are discussed through different applications and models. Specifically, in this retrospective study, we evaluate 15 children with dyslexia who switched from in-person to online education during the pandemic, and we investigate the efficiency of two interventions. Based on the evidence, online intervention approved to have the same, and in some cases more advanced, results than in-person intervention, and it seems it is here to stay.

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Dimitriadou, I. (2023). Online Dyslexia Intervention via Technology Support; Study in Greece. In: Coman, A., Vasilache, S. (eds) Social Computing and Social Media. HCII 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14026. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35927-9_14

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