An Expert System to Design Intervention Strategies for Children with Disabilities in Multi-Sensory Stimulation Environme
The Multi-Sensory Environments (MSEs) have the objective of improving the development of thought, intelligence, and social skills of children with and without disabilities. However, in developing countries, due to the lack of personnel and resources, the
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GI-IATa, C´ atedra UNESCO Tecnolog´ıas de apoyo para la Inclusi´ on Educativa, Universidad Polit´ecnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador {kpucha,jllanes}@est.ups.edu.ec, [email protected] 2 Ecosistema de Investigaci´ on, Innovaci´ on y Emprendimiento, Universidad Polit´ecnica Salesiana, Cuenca, Ecuador [email protected] 3 Fundaci´ on HOPE, Cuenca, Ecuador [email protected]
Abstract. The Multi-Sensory Environments (MSEs) have the objective of improving the development of thought, intelligence, and social skills of children with and without disabilities. However, in developing countries, due to the lack of personnel and resources, the process of designing intervention plans for children with disabilities in MSEs is carried out from an empirical perspective. For these reasons, in this paper, we present a system that relies on a multi-sensory environment consisting of 7 rehabilitation modules and an expert system to automatically determine which rehabilitation activities are appropriate for children with disabilities. To this aim, the expert system uses a model based on decision trees regressors with multi-outputs and suggests a therapy plan selecting pairs activity-module (from a total of 7 modules). We tested the system with a group of experts using three criteria: completeness of the plan, coherence (activities versus child’s profile), and applicability (relation between activities and each module). Currently, the system can suggest plans for children with different disabilities such as Infantile Cerebral Palsy (ICP), autism, hypogenesis of the corpus callosum, intellectual disability, epilepsy, and hydranencephaly.
Keywords: Multi-Sensory Environments regressor · Children with disabilities
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Introduction
According to the World Report on Disability carried out by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Bank (WB) [1] more than a billion people c Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020 G. Rodriguez Morales et al. (Eds.): TICEC 2020, CCIS 1307, pp. 51–63, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62833-8_5
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live worldwide with some form of disability and almost 200 million experience considerable difficulties in their operation. The assessment raise concern as the numbers are increasing showing that there is an adequate lack of programs for rehabilitation, care and therapy. In Ecuador, the National Council for Equality of Disabilities (CONADIS, Spanish acronym) points out that 485,325 people registered, suffer physical, hearing, intellectual, psychological, visual and/or language disabilities [4]. Within this group there is a significant population of children and young people who suffer from problems related to communication and language. In developing countries, it is common for a therapist or expert in special education to be in charge of several activities more than providing rehabilitation services for children with disabilities or special educational needs. In this line, this professional must prepare reports, design therapy plans, schedule appointmen
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