Experts: Technology provides pioneering solutions to learning, reading, and pronunciation difficulties
Sharjah, May 10 / WAM / The activities of the 15th session of the Sharjah Children’s Reading Festival witnessed a session entitled “The Role of Technology in Helping Learners Who Face Difficulties” in which the doctor and educational trainer Amal Al Zoghbi, the writer and speech therapist Hisham Damarji, and the psychology expert and academic Dr. the. The Jones.
Dr. Amal Al Zoghbi spoke about learning difficulties and assistive technology, and said that these categories are more prevalent among people with disabilities by 51%, and stressed their need for more care.
She pointed out that 3 to 12% in the world suffer from learning difficulties and difficulties in understanding, reading, pronunciation, and forming ideas, which causes great waste in the education process. Therefore, diagnosis and treatment must be done through scientific foundations and through thoughtful assistance techniques that target the learner’s multiple senses, visual, auditory, and sensory, and activate them through Sequential and cumulative teaching.
Hisham Damarji said that my experience with people with disabilities and those who find difficulties in learning confirmed that dealing with feelings and love through support, inclusion, and patience in the educational process by families, educators, and supervisors, and their presence near this student is better than technology that has emptied a person of his true content.
He added: “In our Arab countries, the main danger of technology is our excessive recreational use of it, as it is a means of play and not an educational means, which has contributed to isolation. As for those who suffer from learning difficulties, their treatment is to integrate them through support and containment, and this will have a great impact on their learning.”
Dr. confirmed. Al Jones’s belief in the role of technology and what it can offer to humans, especially to the groups that need it most, requires early uses of technology to help people with mental disabilities or those who suffer from learning difficulties.
He said: “I have seen many uses of technology with positive results, whether through brain stimulation and brain implanted chips, to stimulate thinking, speech, and speech, as well as artificial intelligence applications that provide training models ready to qualify these groups and help teachers and professors.”
He pointed out that “technology must be generalized to include everyone, especially the groups that need it most,” explaining at the same time that “the problem of electronic games, which represents a danger, must be dealt with.” He said: “We are trying to oblige game companies to some educational standards to move these games forward in the midst of these technical developments.” “accelerated.”
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