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Using Lecture Recorder in Diagnostics Tests for Dyslexia

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Dyslexia is a learning disability, a neurological language processing disorder. Its symptoms include difficulty with written and spoken information. Diagnosticians use a complete evaluation including educational, intelligence and speech/language assessments. Examiners try to look for the disorder’s evidence and rule out various factors causing language and reading problems. It is useful to record how the children are processing the reading and spelling tests and record the detailed content of their performance during these testing procedures. Ideally, a full test package performed by a child should be saved for further examinations and analysis by the diagnosticians. Also, in the event that diagnostician experts can not be reached directly or physically present, they may remotely access and view a digitized test via web interface and perform their assessments as if they were observing a child face-to-face and the tests were performed in his/her presence. This requires application of Epiphan Lecture Recorder in dyslexia diagnostics. This solution featuring an integrated frame grabber can capture video and audio signals from DVI/VGA sources and transfer it to the LAN or Internet. The data acquired from video and audio sources can be synchronized at the server in order to preserve reaction time observations.

Capturing a Reading Test

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One misconception is that dyslexic children do not read at all. That is not true. They may read up to a point. But by third to fourth grade (or even sooner) they begin to experience serious problems as dyslexia forces them to use very different strategies when reading. Their unusual strategies will start to fail them by third to fourth grade. They can read a word on one page, however they won’t recognize the same word on the next page. Dyslexic children can’t use phonics to sound out an unknown word. Therefore they hate hearing you say, “Sound it out.” In fact, they are unable to sound out an unknown word. This is a warning sign of dyslexia. The best reading test is to ask a child to read a list of words or some nonsense words out loud. No pictures or context clues are to be found in testing material. Tester should keep in mind that typical mistakes made by dyslexic children are heard only if they read the words list out loud. Usually instead of looking carefully at the letters they look at the shape of a word. As a result, children delete or insert sounds, ignore suffixes and make mistakes with the vowel sounds. Testing material needs accurate and, possibly, repeated analysis which can be simplified by using Lecture Recorder connected to the Ethernet. Using Its video, analog audio or DVI inputs, one can capture recorded video and audio no matter whether analog, digital or IP camera are used. After being captured and recorded, video and audio content can be stored on its internal disk, media, or remote server for further analysis, or benchmarking for improvements at a later date.

Importance of Dysgraphia Test

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Dysgraphia is also a learning disability. It results from the difficulty in expressing thoughts in graphing and writing. Most people with dyslexia also have dysgraphia. That’s why they grip their pencil in such an odd manner, experience difficulties getting their letters to sit on the line. Because of dysgraphia children have difficulty taking notes from the teacher, white board or chalk board and dislike using cursive writing or writing letters with strange beginning and ending points. They often make mistakes even when copying words that they can read. This is another principal test for dyslexia that also needs to be recorded for future evaluation. The test can be performed as follows: First a child must read something written on the board. Then the tester watches while the subject student tries to copy it onto paper. Due to poor visual memory for printed words, dyslexic children usually glance up at the board every two or three letters. Directly after this they stare intently at what they are writing. The tester may notice how their head is constantly going up and down during copying. When children look back up at the board, it is very hard for them to figure out where they left off. It is obvious that both the writing process and the result of the note taking are important for correct diagnostics and should be captured. The Lecture Recorder ability to provide full motion video at high resolution up to 1900x1200 ensures accurate and quality capturing and transferring of data.

Suitable Solution for Test Evaluation

Lecture Recorder is capable of capturing recorded content for any audio visual dyslexia test that you wish to present to a student subject regardless of what video equipment you use.. The information will be accurately captured at high resolution and perfect audio quality, synchronized, saved locally or sent anywhere via Internet. Lecture Recorder enables you to engage more competent diagnosticians and provide them with fullest possible information about the child.

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