Development of Mobile Games for Rehabilitation Training for the Hearing Impaired
This research is to suggest a mobile game program for rehabilitation of the hearing impaired. The suggested program is based on the characteristics of hearing-impaired children and the classification of hearing loss. The voice recognition technology is th
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Abstract This research is to suggest a mobile game program for rehabilitation of the hearing impaired. The suggested program is based on the characteristics of hearing-impaired children and the classification of hearing loss. The voice recognition technology is the most intimate way of delivery of information. The suggested program does not require any additional learning or training course, but enables the hearing impaired to do vocal exercises through games and helps them to enjoy rehabilitation training.
Keywords Auditory training Voice recognition Hearing-impaired children Mobile game
Rehabilitation training
1 Introduction All the games have background stories, helping developing objectives (goals), rules, adaptability, problem-solving skills and interaction [1–3].
S. Cho (&) S. K. Chul C. H. Kim Department of Electronic Engineering, Kwangwoon University, 20 Kwangwoon-ro, Nowon-gu, Seoul 139-701, Korea e-mail: [email protected] S. K. Chul e-mail: [email protected] C. H. Kim e-mail: [email protected] Y. Lee Department of Social Welfare, Kyung Hee Cyber University, 1 Hoegi-Dong, Dongdaemun-Gu, Seoul 130-701, Korea e-mail: [email protected]
J. J. (Jong Hyuk) Park et al. (eds.), Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering 240, DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-6738-6_76, Ó Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht(Outside the USA) 2013
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Among the hearing-impaired children, those who are completely deaf and must use sign language for communication are only 10 %. Children with low hearing impairment can have a command of a language if they receive auditory training and language reinforcing training during the critical period for language development (36–40 months old). Hearing-impaired children receive various kinds of treatment, including play psychotherapy, art therapy, music therapy and cognitive therapy, as well as auditory training and language reinforcing training, at rehabilitation centers for the disabled, clinics and hospitals, and rehabilitation clinics, but it is found that their satisfaction levels with those therapies have not been high [4]. This research describes characteristics of hearing-impaired children, classifies them based on level of hearing loss, provides plan and design for mobile games through analysis of needs, and finally suggests the direction of future research.
2 Related Studies and Technologies 2.1 Characteristics of Hearing-Impaired Children Children who lost their hearing severely before the language acquisition period have very limited accommodation of language through speech sound, so internalization of a language can be delayed in comparison with normal children. Schum (1991) found that 18-month-old hearing-impaired children use 0–9 words only in average, while 22-month-old hearing-impaired children receiving an oral training program can command approximately ten spoken words. Griswiod and Cmmings (1974) found that hearing-impaired children at the age of 4 command approximately 158 spoken words, while normal children
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