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Learning technologies offer new opportunities to children and people with disabilities to develop their autonomy and independence. In recent years, and thanks to the emergence of touch devices, lots of efforts have been put into creating content and applications for these kinds of surfaces. In addition, current literature shows the benefits of using technology for improving the learning process of these students. This paper presents two learning experiences where pre-school aged children and students with special needs performed learning activities using tablets. The results obtained shed light on these types of devices, which are suitable for early ages and special education since they do not need intermediate devices such as the keyboard or the mouse.
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The research presented in this paper has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness under grant agreement TIN2013-44586-R, “e-Training y e-Coaching para la integración socio-laboral” and by Comunidad de Madrid under project S2013/ICE-2715.
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Roldán-Álvarez, D., Márquez-Fernández, A., Martín, E., Guzmán, C. (2016). Learning Experiences Using Tablets with Children and People with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In: Verbert, K., Sharples, M., Klobučar, T. (eds) Adaptive and Adaptable Learning. EC-TEL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9891. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45153-4_81
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