site.bta Special Equipment Will Help Teach Children with Dyslexia and Physical Disabilities

The State will provide technical aids and software to support the education of children with physical disabilities and specific learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia and dyscalculia. This is provided for in amendments to the Regulation on Inclusive Education, which were adopted by the Council of Ministers, the Government's information service reported here on Wednesday. 

Given the revolution in technologies and understanding of human cognitive processes worldwide, assistive technologies have been developed for communication through sight that are used by children and students with motor disorders. This technology is becoming increasingly accessible in terms of cost and the options offered. Assistive technologies for eye movement control of a computer enable people with severe physical disabilities who cannot speak and cannot use their hands to use a computer. Special cameras track a child's eye movement in real time. This information is used to control the computer mouse. Directing the gaze moves the mouse across the screen, and holding the gaze results in a mouse click. In this way all programs on a computer can be used with just a glance.

Text-to-speech technologies have also been developed to facilitate the comprehension of written material in textbooks and teaching aids by students with a specific reading disorder (dyslexia). New technologies can also support the learning of children with specific writing disorders (dysgraphia) and arithmetic skills (dyscalculia).

The necessary funds for the purchase of equipment and software for children and pupils with physical disabilities and specific learning disabilities for the 2023/2024 school year will be provided by funds under the Ministry of Education's National Programme Information and Communication Technologies.