Augmentative and alternative communication in the literacy teaching for deaf children

Abstract

Deaf children face various challenges in their daily life in the social, cultural and educational ambits. Therefore they must learn to communicate with society through writing and reading. However learn read and writing without sounds are major challenges, because the teacher must find another learning strategies as communication boards. Taking in account previous works, we propose a communication board for deaf children using the teaching method Fitzgerald Key’s, which we make use of a physic board and technology as an alternative that the child can interact in a real environment and virtual using physic elements and augmented reality.