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dyslexia | MP3 | Peer-learning
Posting Date: 20 November 2007
Last Edited Date: 07 January 2010
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bidegain antoine (Agence publique "Numérique 64")France
Project or serviceThe initiative was born after the assessment of the specific difficulties encountered by dyslexic pupils and the obstacles they face when doing the basic homework tasks. Since the lesson written by a dyslexic child in his handbook is most of the time unreadable, he is prevented from repeating the work and cannot always rely on the constant attention of the parents helping to review the lesson. Giving a printed copy of the lesson does not help when it comes to children suffering from a reading handicap. Therefore, with this initiative an audio ‘copy’ of the lesson is created in order to allow an easier autonomous work of the student at the end of the day. To do so, peers of the disabled child are involved in recording on an MP3 player the audio version of the lesson in a dedicated moment every day. The dyslexic child is then provided with the MP3 player with all the necessary contents. He therefore receives an ‘oral portable peer help’ to clean up and fulfil quietly his own version of the lesson. The same device is used also to give oral instructions during some tests in order to avoid any early obstacle in understanding the instructions.