GAME FOR DYSLEXICS

Abstract

The present project will be an empirical endeavour for the development of a reliable and valid diagnostic and rehabilitation tool for the children with reading disorder. It is seen that the activity of diagnosis and rehabilitation is boring for the children, consequently being less effective for them. Therefore, to devise a technique through which children learn more is the focus of this project. Children now a days show keen interest in computer games. Due to the proposed tool, which is a series of games, children will be able to differentiate between different sounds, words and letters. This would be done by different techniques and creating different scenarios and levels. This report presents our serious games created to screen and train different abilities which are usually impaired in children with dyslexia. We primarily test the cognitive abilities which are deeply related to the children’s future reading skills, i.e., visual search ability, rapid identification of visual inputs, visual sequential and auditory memory and the capability to associate visual and auditory stimuli. To this aim, we discuss here a series of serious games designed to train specific skills that have been proven to be effective against dyslexia according to Orton Gallium Study. This game would be a good platform for rehabilitation along with providing the results of performance at the end of game. The game would be developed using unity 3D engine, which provides variety of tools for game creation.