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Prosodiya – A Mobile Game for German Dyslexic Children

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Approximately 4–10% of the German population suffers from developmental dyslexia. The learning disorder afffects educational, personal, and social development of children in a negative way. Mobile serious games have the potential to support dyslexic primary-school children in addition to school support and learning therapy. We propose such a mobile serious game called “Prosodiya”, with the help of which dyslexic children can improve their reading and writing performance. Prosodiya includes innovative and evidence-based interventions that focus on improving the awareness of linguistic features related to syllable stress. We report the results of a pilot study of a preliminary version of the game. Results indicate that the children enjoyed playing the game, that their motivation was maintained, and that they wanted more levels.

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  1. LEAD Graduate School & Research Network, Eberhard Karls Unviersität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Heiko Holz & Detmar Meurers

  2. Tübinger Institut für Lerntherapie GmbH, Tübingen, Germany

    Heiko Holz, Katharina Brandelik, Jochen Brandelik & Benedikt Beuttler

  3. Department of Psychology, Eberhard Karls Unviersität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Benedikt Beuttler & Jürgen Heller

  4. Department of Computer Science, Eberhard Karls Unviersität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Alexandra Kirsch

  5. Department of Linguistics, Eberhard Karls Unviersität Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Detmar Meurers

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Holz, H. et al. (2017). Prosodiya – A Mobile Game for German Dyslexic Children. In: Dias, J., Santos, P., Veltkamp, R. (eds) Games and Learning Alliance. GALA 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10653. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71940-5_7

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