La Mesita

La Mesita is a free downloadable application for touch devices recommended for Tablets, which aims to promote reading development of children with special educational needs. In this context, the application adapting the child, because it is a flexible space that allows autonomous exploration by the user or can be used in the company of a mediator (father, mother, older brother, professional, among others ) that pose entertaining and challenging activities, depending on the specific needs submitted by the user.

This virtual desktop will allow the girl or boy seven worlds to explore different themes, containing different images associated with his words, as well as stories with embedded audio and ordering stories through picture cards. The user can write with the board of letters from grapheme to phrases or sentences that can be read by the application, you can write or draw by the Pencil tool, will discuss entertaining way with the microphone, change the color and size objects in the desktop, add musical notes to objects or to explore the various shades of these later create rhythms. You can also change the font of the words presented, segmented words into syllables or letters, you can make screenshots of the application to have records of their work and progress, use rubber or pump to remove stimuli. In addition, you can count on the help button, which allows the mediator more information on the operation of sections and application tools.

With all these resources are expected through La Mesita activities that promote the work of the following paths are developed:

• Language skills: includes the dimensions of vocabulary and listening comprehension.

• Phonological Skills: related to discrimination of syllables, segmenting syllables, initial syllable recognition and auditory discrimination final syllable.

• Alphabetic Principle and literacy: composed of the dimensions of knowledge of letter names, grapheme knowledge, recognition of written words, visual discrimination syllable end and conventional reading.

• Auditory discrimination: includes discrimination tone, timbre and rhythm.

To access the application manual where you will find more information on this and some guidelines for activities with users, click the following link:

http://www.cedeti.cl/recursos-tecnologicos/software-educativo/la-mesita/