Influence of assistive technology applications on dyslexic students: The case of Saudi Arabia during the COVID-19 pandemic

• Published in: Education and information technologies Vol. 27; no. 9; pp. 12213 - 12249
• Main Authors: Al-Dokhny, Amany Ahmed, Bukhamseen, Amani Mohammed, Drwish, Amr Mohammed
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York Springer US 01.11.2022; Springer; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Adaptive technology; Assistive Technology; Book publishing; China; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computer Science; Computers and Education; Coronaviruses; Correlation; COVID-19; Dyslexia; Education; Educational Technology; Epidemics; Executives; Experimental Groups; Handicapped assistance devices; Information Systems Applications (incl.Internet); Learning disabled; Learning strategies; Pandemics; Quasiexperimental Design; Research Design; Saudi Arabia; Students; United Kingdom; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Visual Perception; Saudi Arabia; United Kingdom; China; Assistive technology; Phonological processing; Students with dyslexia; Language disabilities; Visual perception

In Saudi Arabia, the COVID-19 pandemic forced students with dyslexia to complete their learning through online applications, like their peers without dyslexia. This study explores the influence of assistive technology (AT) on improving the visual perception (VP) and phonological processing (PhP) abi...