The Phonicstick: a joystick to generate novel words using phonics

Authors:
Rolf Black
Affiliations:
University of Dundee, Dundee, United Kingdom
Venue:
The proceedings of the 13th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility
Year:
2011

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Abstract

Current Voice Output Communication Aids (VOCAs) give little support for playing with sounds and blending these into words. This paper presents a joystick that can be used to access six different letter sounds (phonics) and blend them into short words. Seven children (five with some degree of physical and/or learning disability) showed their ability to use the device after only one 20 minutes introduction session.