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Mobile App as an Alternative in the Process of Speech Therapy in Children with Cerebral Palsy

Abstract:

Infantile cerebral palsy, known as ICP, is a disability that hinders the development of learning in infants. However, thanks to the technology we can overcome these barriers to learning, and even more when we can make use of technology accompanied by medical or therapeutic sciences, which is why this work aims to develop a prototype which we called EYEHOPE. This prototype represents a mobile application (mob-app) that is developed to meet the needs of learning at a low cost and with current technologies, such as: Eye tracking together with artificial vision. Furthermore, the developed prototype was tested in a comprehensive therapeutic center called NEUROCRECER, on patients with cerebral palsy, having good results with specialists in the therapeutic area. Thus, the prototype is able to provides great autonomy and improvement in pedagogical issues once it encourages the child with cerebral palsy to have the power to communicate and learn at the same time with a technological resource available to anyone.