JollyMate: Assistive Technology for Young Children with Dyslexia

Abstract

In this paper, we describe Jolly mate, a product concept that we have envisioned as assistive technology for young children with Dyslexia. Jolly mate, a digital notepad, emulates the Jolly Phonics system of teaching letter sounds and letter formation to children with dyslexia. Jolly mate in turn uses simple handwritten character recognizers created using the Lipi IDE tool from the Lipi Toolkit project, for detecting when a character has been written incorrectly. In this paper we describe the Jolly mate concept in brief, the Lipi IDE tool used to create the recognizers, and their integration.