Mobile Applications, An Emerging Powerful Tool for Dyslexia Screening and Intervention: A Systematic Literature Review

Authors

  • Stratigoula Politi-Georgousi National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • Athanasios Drigas Net Media Lab-Mind & Brain R&D, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Athens, Greece

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v14i18.15315

Keywords:

Mobile applications, Dyslexia, screening, intervention

Abstract


Nowadays, mobile applications seem to play a vital role in both dyslexia screening and intervention, accumulating numerous assets and comforts in according to dyslexics’ needs and learning pace. Initial detection of students’ disabilities, followed by a corresponding intervention program were the best combination of actions in an attempt to any problem be confronted effectively. In our today’s society, mobile apps have been considered as an alternative approach for the success of these well-known key steps, as well. The aim of this literature review is to propose a great number of screening and treatment mobile applications for dyslexia. During the last decades these  have been developed or have been implemented, focused on different aspects of dyslexia symptoms (reading, writing, mathematical difficulties, memory etc.) The studies are categorized into two sections, based on the purpose for which mobile applications are used at a time. The first part reflects a mobile app as a detection tool, while the second part presents it as intervention tool.

Author Biographies

Stratigoula Politi-Georgousi, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens, Greece

Stratigoula Politi-Georgousi is currently working as a special education teacher in Athens, Greece.  She holds a Master’ s degree in Special Education and ICTs (e-mail:  stratigoulaplt@gmail.com). She is a PhD candidate in Special Pedagogy and Psychology at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Athanasios Drigas, Net Media Lab-Mind & Brain R&D, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Athens, Greece

Athanasios Drigas is a Research Director at N.C.S.R. ‘Demokritos’, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications - Net Media Lab & Mind-Brain R&D, Agia Paraskevi, 153 10, Athens, Greece (e-mail dr@iit.demokritos.gr:).

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Published

2020-11-10

How to Cite

Politi-Georgousi, S., & Drigas, A. (2020). Mobile Applications, An Emerging Powerful Tool for Dyslexia Screening and Intervention: A Systematic Literature Review. International Journal of Interactive Mobile Technologies (iJIM), 14(18), pp. 4–17. https://doi.org/10.3991/ijim.v14i18.15315

Issue

Vol. 14 No. 18 (2020)

Section

Papers

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