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- Title
USO DE NINTENDO DS COMO RECURSO INTEGRADOR DE LA "COMUNICACIÓN TOTAL.".
- Authors
VALENCIA, LORENZO BARRAGÁN; IRIBARNE, MARÍA DEL CARMEN MARTÍNEZ; GRANADOS, FRANCISCO JOSÉ LÓPEZ; LAO, ANDREA REGALADO; FÓRTIZ, MARÍA JOSÉ RODRÍGUEZ; CASAS, MANUEL ENTRENA; CAMARASA, ANDRÉS PÉREZ; SÁNCHEZ, JOSÉ LUÍS GONZÁLEZ
- Abstract
This paper shows the experience in the design and the implementation of an alternative and augmentative communication system, in a special education school of Granada, la Fundación la Purísima Conception. In that school we have worked with the application Sc@ut DS, which is a platform for communicative learning, including language with pictograms, spoken language and language with gestures. The videogame console Nintendo DS™ has been used to support the application. A library of animations has been created, including gestures from sign language, used as reinforcement and alternative language for communication. We have been working with eight students during nine months in the Especial Education School La Purísima Concepción, in Granada. The use of Nintendo DS as communication support increases the motivation of the students and it is an attractive mechanism for training abilities, concepts and gestures. We have provided a resource which facilitates the communication of people with intellectual disability and severe problems in their oral language. Every Communication System must adapt to the user and our proposal does it. The use of sign language added as animation in the device reinforces the learning and use of gestures for communication.
- Subjects
GRANADA (Spain); SPAIN; EDUCATIONAL games; STUDENTS with disabilities; ACTIVITY programs in education; INTELLECTUAL development; SPECIAL education schools; NONVERBAL communication in education; COMMUNICATION in education
- Publication
Portularia: Revista de Trabajo Social, 2009, Vol 9, p17
- ISSN
1578-0236
- Publication type
Article