Smart Phone Based Early Intervention Framework for Intellectually Disable Children of Pakistan

Abstract

Early Intervention (EI) services are especially designed for Intellectually Disabled Children (IDC) to help improve their adaptive behavior and intellectual functioning. They called EI as these services are provided as soon as the first sign of disability appears. Social stories, video modeling and cognitive games are the most famous early intervention techniques. Because IDC are kinesthetic learners; learn through demonstration, thus these techniques can proved to more effective when presented through different technological platforms such as smart phones. This study explores effectiveness of EI techniques presented through Mobile Education Applications (MEA) for IDC of Pakistan. After reviewing the existing MEAs; most of which are not suitable for local IDC due to language and cultural differences, this study proposes a framework for the development of a compact MEA Parity, consisting of culturally tailored video modeled social stories, cognitive games and Urdu alphabet tracing, intended for local IDC of Pakistan.