A web-based platform for blind and visually impaired Russian-speaking children to learn English vocabulary and spelling

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Abstract: In developing countries, children with blindness and visual impairments (BVI) have limited access to education. They are placed under the “protection” of the Ministry of Health rather than the Ministry of education because disability is viewed as a disease that must be cured. Therefore, instead of creating an accessible environment for development, they try to rehabilitate or fix children to make them “normal.” I was born in Kyrgyz Republic, one of the developing countries where BVI children have limited educational opportunities. One of the commonly identified difficulties that children with BVI experience is learning foreign languages because adequate language learning materials are rare and inaccessible. Hence, I decided to develop an educational technology to support BVI children in improving their English vocabulary. BeeVoice represents an accessible audio interactive gamified web platform for BVI children. It will utilize Universal Design for Learning (UDL) principles for accessibility, gamification techniques for engagement, the explicit vocabulary learning approach and associative networks theory for vocabulary acquisition, and spelling mode for spelling acquisition.

Researcher	Kanatbek kyzy, Malika

Subject	Blind and Visually Impaired Learners
Subject	English language > Acquisition
Subject	Kyrgyzstan
Subject	Accessible educational technology
Genre	Text
Genre	Thesis

DOI	https://doi.org/10.25740/zr249dd8536
Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/zr249dd8536

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Preferred citation: Kanatbek kyzy, M. (2022). A web-based platform for blind and visually impaired Russian-speaking children to learn English vocabulary and spelling. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at https://purl.stanford.edu/zr249dd8536

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