Actividades de apoyo a la terapia del desarrollo de procesos cognitivos en niños con discapacidad visual

Abstract

The Institute for Blind and Deaf Children of Cali is an institute located in the city of Santiago de Cali that seeks to contribute to the integral development of children with visual or hearing disabilities, through research, promotion, prevention, diagnosis and rehabilitation, identifying their skills and abilities, so that they take advantage of them and potentiate them in their different stages of life. The institute, in collaboration with the university, has developed certain applications to help in the therapy of patients.

This is why we want to design, implement and evaluate a software application conformed by activities, which provide support to the developmental therapy of cognitive processes of children with visual impairment, based on an application previously developed for the rehabilitation of oral and written language of hearing impaired children. This will be done in order to evaluate whether the process developed in the current project could be applied to a child with visual impairment. In order to select the application to be suitable for children with visual impairment, certain selection criteria will be elaborated alongside the institute for deaf and blind children of Cali, so that the application is fully adapted to the specific needs of children with this disability.

The available applications of rehabilitation support are quite limited in their scope (they only address the most elementary aspects of therapy) and are not versatile to take advantage of the material, but use it in a unique way.

Therefore, the realization of this project could improve the way in which it treats the development of cognitive processes through software with visually impaired patients and encourage progress in this area.