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Disability / Accessibility Gap

CONTEXT A personal reading adventure. Disability / Accessibility Gap. Defining the problem.

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Disability / Accessibility Gap

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  1. CONTEXT A personal reading adventure Disability / Accessibility Gap

  2. Defining the problem • National Center for Education Statistics: In 2014–15, the number of children and youth ages 3–21 receiving special education services was 6.6 million, or 13 percent of all public school students. Among children and youth receiving special education services, 35% had specific learning disabilities. 75% – 80% • National Institutes of Health: of LD have their basic deficits in language and reading.

  3. Redefining education with real-life voices “I have a a lot of different lexile [and] comprehension levels in any given class, some are kindergarten and some are 9th grade,” said Audra Cormack, an English teacher in Yelm, Washington, with experience teaching elementary-level students. “It’s difficult to find a text that accommodates all of the reading, vocab, comprehension levels while also giving them texts that they’ll actually enjoy. My biggest thing at my school is just the availability of resources, unfortunately.” “Common reading struggles my students have are really based in fluency,” said Isabella Alexandratos, an English teacher in Wheeling, West Virginia, who has taught elementary-level students in three countries. “They sometimes struggle with phonetic awareness and the nuances of the English language and that impacts their comprehension.”

  4. Context: Input A personal reading adventure • IEP:Individualized evaluation process • Data software • Personalized experience for each user depending on disibility • Google images

  5. Context: Output • Reading Level • Text-to-speech • Different fonts • Images for contextual cues • Highlight important content • Breaks down text

  6. Inspiration/building on the world of AI • IBM Watson Element 360-degree view of students • Provides teachers with academic, social & behavioral data sources • Kurzweil 3000 • Reading tool that provides choices of size, text-to-audio & direct study guide creation • Khan Academy • Online tutoring and test prep • Adaptive learning, but neglects reading • Hemingway • Reading tool that shows the sentence structure and reading level

  7. User flow: experience reading • Log-in • Teacher uploads text • Based on background info & tracked patterns, the software is tailored to YOU • Read • Interact with software to enhance learning at your own pace Example from IBM Watson Element for Educators

  8. Example of modified text: Congress will not make a law looking up to a religion, or not letting people practice it; or making smaller the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to come together in peace, and to petition the Government for a correction of unfairness.

  9. Example of modified text: Congress will not make a law looking up to a religion, or not letting people practice it; or making smaller the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to come together in peace, and to petition the Government for a correction of unfairness. More options:

  10. Sans-serif fonts generally more appealing for body text • Fonts affect satisfaction, readability & comprehension Example • Avoiding horizontal scrolling • Software will adjust size, font for variety of disabliites: dyslexia, vision impairement • Font size should be bigger than 10px

  11. Business Structure Market size • 62% of students grade 3-5 had access to laptops in 2014. Target Audience (B2B) • U.S. school systems • Secondary: • Computer users who struggle with reading comprehesion • New language learners Potential partners • Publishing co-op program • Textbook companies • Online learning programs • Alternative after-school programs • Nonprofit organizations • Resettlement agencies

  12. Business Structure Development stages • Research and Developing MVP while exploring options of using Google Translate API and IBM Watson. • Running extensive User Tets • Developing our web app using open sources tools. • Testing Mobile app Evaluation of development time One year R&D MVP costs (5 months): $90,000 Total costs: $350,000 Detail estimate costs • R&D: $250,000 • Promotion, branding marketing: $35,000 • Training and customer experience service: $25,000 • Maintenance: 25%

  13. no⅄ ʞuɐɥ┴ Thank You

  14. References https://www.ibm.com/watson/education https://www.kurzweiledu.com/default.html https://www.khanacademy.org https://nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/indicator_cgg.asp https://ldaamerica.org/support/new-to-ld/ http://wave.webaim.org/cognitive http://dyslexiahelp.umich.edu/sites/default/files/good_fonts_for_dyslexia_study.pdf https://thejournal.com/articles/2014/04/08/a-third-of-secondary-students-use-school-issued-mobile-devices.aspx

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