Dy-poThon: A Bangla Sentence-Learning System for Children with Dyslexia

Dipshikha Podder, Manjira Sinha, Tirthankar Dasgupta, Anupam Basu


Abstract
The number of assistive technologies available for dyslexia in Bangla is low and most of them do not use multisensory teaching methods. As a solution, a computer-based audio-visual system Dy-poThon is proposed to teach sentence reading in Bangla. It incorporates the multisensory teaching method through three activities, listening, reading, and writing, checks the reading and writing ability of the user and tracks the response time. A criteria-based evaluation was conducted with 28 special educators to evaluate Dy-poThon. Content, efficiency, ease of use and aesthetics are evaluated using a standardised questionnaire. The result suggests that Dy-poThon is useful for teaching Bangla sentence-reading.
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2023.icon-1.42
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Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON)
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December
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2023
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Goa University, Goa, India
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Jyoti D. Pawar, Sobha Lalitha Devi
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ICON
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SIGLEX
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NLP Association of India (NLPAI)
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478–485
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Dipshikha Podder, Manjira Sinha, Tirthankar Dasgupta, and Anupam Basu. 2023. Dy-poThon: A Bangla Sentence-Learning System for Children with Dyslexia. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Natural Language Processing (ICON), pages 478–485, Goa University, Goa, India. NLP Association of India (NLPAI).
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