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Research Group to Aid Child Development presents..

A better future for the children, a better future for the country…

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Invited Talk

Kazi Tanvir Ahmmed Assistant Professor

Department of Applied Physics, Electronics & Communication Engineering

University of Chittagong Email: [email protected]

Presenter

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RESEARCH GROUP TO AID CHILD DEVELOPMENT

Contents

•  Introduction

•  Motivation

•  General Features of the kit

•  Special Features of the kit

•  Applications

•  Hardware interface of the kit

•  Software interface of the kit

•  Demonstration of the kit

•  Performance Study

•  Comments

•  Results & Decisions

•  Conclusion

•  Future work

•  Acknowledgment

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Introduction

We, the Research Group to A id Chi ld Development (RGACD), are working in the vein of converging various sides of medical and physical sciences. Today, we will talk about the kit developed by us for children with special needs and has been named as “The RGACD Learning Kit”. The learning kit can help them to enhance the development of their body and mind. Our kit is specifically used to make the therapeutic procedures much more convenient and fun for the children, their parents and the trainers.

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•  The individuals in the team are willing to work for the country.

•  Our goal is to bring smile and open up a whole new world for the children with special needs.

•  Help the developmentally delayed children of our country and improving their level of cognition using our knowledge on technological renovation and our creativity.

•  Children are the future of our country . The number of children with special needs is not negligible. By helping their development we are helping our country.

•  We aim to build up technologies suitable for developing countries like ours.

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‘‘RGACD Learning Kit’’

• The RGACD Learning kit is an Microcontroller and Infrared sensor based unique portable, a plug and play styled learning tool targeted towards children with/without special needs to aid their physical and mental growth. • The learning kit currently features various items of various categories. Such as Colors, Shapes, Animals, Daily Objects, Important Dates. • The kit is equipped with 3‐D models of everyday objects. • Based on the response of the user it will show various knowledgeable videos about the objects on a connected screen or Personal Computer.

General Features

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‘‘RGACD Learning Kit’’

•  The kit has been developed by closely observing the work of numerous doctors , child therapists, and psychologists and discussing with them. It enhances the therapy process for the children with special needs.

•  It has two modes. A) Learning Mode & B) Testing Mode. •  In the learning mode the user picks up an object ,watches the

corresponding video and learns about it. •  In testing mode the system of the kit randomly generates an

object’s name on the interface of the kit and prompts the user to pick it up. If the wrong one is picked up ,it will inform the user that it is wrong and if the user is right he/she will be applauded by the kit’s system.

General Features

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“RGACD Learning Kit”

•  The code architecture has been made in such a way that the videos can be updated easily. Thus, we can make the kit suitable for all over the world. It can be used by any culture of the world.

•  The learning kit contains colorful and fun videos on purpose so that it helps to increase the cognition level of the children with low response .

•  The videos contains texts which are useful for children with hearing impairment.

Special Features

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“RGACD Learning Kit”

•  The items in the learning kit are in 3D which is beneficial for the visually impaired children. It helps them to get oriented to the shapes of the objects.

•  The 3D models help the development of fine motor of the children using it.

•  It also helps the children with speech difficulties by increasing the word stock with related pictures.

•  Children with Autism are visual learners and this kit helps to increase their cognition as well as communication level.

Application

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DEVELOPMENT

“Hardware Interface of The Kit”

“Hardware Interface of The Kit”

Figure : 3‐D objects of the kit

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DEVELOPMENT

“Software Interface of the RGACD Learning Kit in

English”

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DEVELOPMENT

“Software Interface of the RGACD Learning Kit in

Bengali”

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DEVELOPMENT

“Learning Section of the RGACD Learning Kit”

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“Testing section of the RGACD Learning Kit”

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Demonstration of the RGACD Learning Kit…

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Children’s reaction towards the learning kit…


•  Our primary surveys on children, doctors, psychologists, therapists showed a very positive response.

•  We tested our kit on about 30 children with varieties of impairments. We went to two child development centers and a school for autistic children to test our kit.

•  We tested the kit in two phases. First of all, we mentioned that there are two modes in the kit. The learning and the testing phase. We observed the children’s behaviors in both of the modes and checked their responses.

Performance Study Observation of the Efficiency of the RGACD Learning Kit

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•  We came up with various activities related to the kit and the child and examining the responses we divided them into 3 types:

YES‐ Which means the child was successful in every attempt to complete the action.

NO‐ Which means the child was not successful to complete the action at all.

SOMETIMES‐ Which means the child was successful / not successful to complete the action


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50%

14%

32%

4%

Children we observed

ADHD ASD Speech Delay Down Syndrome


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ADHD‐ Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder ASD‐ Autism Spectrum Disorder

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•  Responses provided by ADHD children in the Learning phase.

RESPONSES YES NO SOMETIMES

Looks at the kit 9 1 4

Looks at the objects placed on the kit 12 1 1

Recognizes specific objects on the kit 2 5 7

Picks up a specific object per request 12 1 1

Recognizes the object by looking at the picture on the screen

9 2 3

Watches the corresponding video attentively 8 3 3

Places the object In the specific position of the kit

12 2 0


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RESPONSES YES NO SOMETIMES

Responds towards the object shown in the screen

12 1 1

Recognizes the object in the screen and tells Its name

4 7 3

Picks up the proper object from the kit 12 0 2

Places the object on the correct place 12 1 1

•  Responses provided by ADHD children in the Testing phase.


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•  Responses provided by ADHD children in the Testing phase.


Yes 86%

No 7%

Sometimes 7%

Observations for ADHD patients on the issue "Looks at the object of the screen which is asked to pick up"

Yes No Sometimes

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•  Responses provided by Speech delayed children in the Testing phase.


Yes 22%

No 56%

Sometimes 22%

Observations for Speech Delay patients on the issue "Recognizes the object and tells its name"

Yes No Sometimes

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•  Responses provided by Speech delayed children in the Learning phase.


Yes 78%

No 11%

Sometimes 11%

Observatins for the Speech Delay patients on the issue "Can pick up the object on request"

Yes No Sometimes

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•  Responses provided by ASD children in the Testing phase.

Yes 50%

No 25%

Sometimes 25%

Observations for ASD patients on the issue "Looks at the objects on the learning kit"

Yes No Sometimes

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0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110


Yes

No

Sometimes

•  In here the total responses provided by the children for each and every kit related activity is charted here.

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20

40

60

80

100

120

Yes

No

Some)mes

Yes

No

Some)mes

Yes

No

Some)mes

Yes

No

Some)mes

14 4 9 1


Places the object on the specific place

Picks up the object from the learning kit

Recognizes the object and tells its name

Looks at the object on the screen which is

asked to pick up

Watches aHen)vely the video

Looks at the picture of the object on the

screen and recognizes it

Places the object on the specific posi)on

of kit

Can pick up the object on request

Says the name of the object on request

Overall Response of All categories

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Comments on Version 1.1.0

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•  “Quite good. Easy for children. They understand easily using this kit.” ‐MD Shakhawat Hossain.

•  “It is a very good initiative for this kind of children. It will be better to add more categories such as‐fruits, flowers, alphabet etc.” –Ummee Kulsum, Assistant Professor,

Premier University.

Parents

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•  “Good work. Our children have enjoyed a lot. Children can easily learn animals and colors.” ‐Farzana Akter, Teacher, Nishpap Autism Foundation, Chittagong.

•  “Children are easily picking up things. Very helpful.” ‐Dipa Chondo, Teacher,

Nishpap Autism Foundation, Chittagong. •  “It has fascinated me. The kids had fun. Please add colorful alphabet, bowl,

spoon, vehicles etc.” ‐Priyanka, Therapist, Nishpap Autism Foundation , Chittagong.

•  “Very useful kit. Children like when they visualize the things both in screen as

well as they can pick it in hand. The methods of socializing these children should be included so that these children can communicate with the general people and so on.” ‐Taiyab, Therapist, Nishpap Autism Foundation , Chittagong.

•  “I have enjoyed a lot. I think Child with Special Need will learn easily in this

method. Hope that we will get some more good work from you which will help these children a lot.” ‐Soma Chakroborty, Vice principal, Nishpap Autism Foundation , Chittagong.

Teachers and Therapists

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•  The children who were part of our research were enthusiastic towards our kit from the very beginning.

•  From the experiments done on the children we can see that at most of the cases the kit is successful.

•  Children with ADHD, Speech delay showed the most positive reactions towards the kit.

•  Most of the negative responses came from the ASD patients but the number still is not high.

Results & Decisions

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•  The children’s situations force them to be dependent on a trainer or parent to use the kit in the first place. In the beginning the child must need the help of the trainer, therapist or their parents. They must help them until the child gets used to the kit.

•  Having a time constraint, we could not test the kit in a longer time frame. The kit has to be tested on a longer time frame such as 1 month, 3 months or longer. Then we have to check the development of a child who has been using the kit for a month or for 3 months. Thus, we can get the actual efficiency of the learning kit and a learning curve of the children using the kit.

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Results & Decisions

•  Our kit has already two versions and we wish to continuously work on it.

•  The kit can be used in home as well as in schools.

•  The kit is cheap in price(about $35) and is ideal for developing and underdeveloped countries.

•  Our learning kit might not be the ultimate solution for the problems faced by the children with special needs but we can ensure that our kit can enhance the development of the children.

Conclusion

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Future Work

•  Spreading the Learning kit to Children all over the country . •  We are currently working on an idea to develop our kit so

that it can process audio and works by taking voice commands.

•  The code architecture of the software supports it to be updated continuously. The contents can be replaced and changed very easily so that it can be suitable to other countries’ cultures.

•  The kit can be developed in various languages. •  Our grand plan is to establish an institute which will Conduct

research to aid child development and impaired children using Applied Science and Technology.

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•  We’ll work to assure child development. All these will be used to shape the future of our nation. Our vision is to help the children and thus help the nation. All we want is your healthy co‐operation.

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Future Work

Acknowledgement

We are working in association with the Chittagong Ma (Mother) O (and) Shishu (child) General Hospital . The work has been funded by the Child development center of the hospital. We are extremely grateful to Professor Dr. Mahmood Ahmed Chowdhury for his continuous support, advice, suggestions and co‐operation.

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Special Thanks goes to..

•  Department Of Applied Physics, Electronics & Communication Engineering, University of Chittagong.

•  Nishpap Autism Foundation, Chittagong.

•  Dr. Bashona Muhuri, Associate Professor, Dept. of child Health, Chittagong Medical College.

•  Dr. Promugdha Hafiz, Child Health Physician, Child Development Center, Chittagong Medical College.

•  Janntaul Ferdous Mitool (Masters Student, Department of Applied Physics, Electronics & Communication Engineering).

•  Shamsun Nahar Nahid (Senior speech & language therapist, Child Development Center, CMOSGH).

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