Video-games based framework designed for the cognitive rehabilitation of children with Down Syndrome

2016-06-19
Children with Down Syndrome have difficulties in solving cognitive tasks and there are special learning and rehabilitation programs to help them overcome these difficulties. In this study, a video-games based rehabilitation platform is developed so that children with Down Syndrome can continue their rehabilitation autonomously at home. For this purpose, a set of video games which aim to address cognitive tasks such as attention, memory, abstraction and finding relations are being designed and implemented. During the gameplay, measurements regarding brain activity and electro dermal activity are done and afterwards, a user-specific rehabilitation program is designed.

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E. Sürer, “Video-games based framework designed for the cognitive rehabilitation of children with Down Syndrome,” presented at the Children with Down Syndrome have difficulties in solving cognitive tasks and there are special learning and rehabilitation programs to help them overcome these difficulties. In this study, a video-games based rehabilitation platform is developed so that children with Down Syndrome can continue their rehabilitation autonomously at home. For this purpose, a set of video games which aim to address cognitive tasks such as attention, memory, abstraction and finding relations are being designed and implemented. During the gameplay, measurements regarding brain activity and electro dermal activity are done and afterwards, a user-specific rehabilitation program is designed., Zonguldak, TURKEY, 2016, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/30518.