deployed in any client that has a web browser, so it can be accessed, practically, from anywhere. It is inherent cross-platform, and in the event of any updates, there is no action that needs to be taken from the user's side. Furthermore, a web application has a fast development cycle, meaning that it can be built and deployed ...
The implementation of a web application for screening children with dyslexia. Nikolaos C. Zygouris1, Filippos Vlachos2, Antonios N. Dadaliaris1, Panagiotis Oikonomou3, George I. Stamoulis1,3, Denis Vavougios2, Evaggelia Nerantzaki1, and Aikaterini Striftou1 1
Computer Science Department, University of Thessaly, Lamia, Greece (nzygouris, dadaliaris, evneradz, astriftou)@uth.gr 2Department of Special Education, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece (fvlachos, dvavou)@ uth.gr 3 Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece (paikonom, georges)@uth.gr
Abstract. Developmental dyslexia is defined as an unexpected specific and persistent failure to acquire efficient reading skills despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence and sociocultural opportunity. The main aim of the present research protocol was to construct a web screening battery of tests in order to screen children’s reading, orthographic and cognitive skills. The main hypothesis of the present study was that Greek students that were already diagnosed as dyslexic, shall present significantly lower scores. A total of sixty, right handed children (30 male and 30 female, age range 8 – 11 years old M=8.93, SD=0.83) participated in this study. Reading, cognitive and orthographic skills of children with dyslexia and typically achieving children were examined, using a battery that consisted of seven tasks. Subsequent analysis of variance revealed that the children with dyslexia had statistically significant (p
