Abstract

The acquisition of phonological awareness (Phonological awareness: the ability to segment, recognize and decompose the phonemes that make up a word.) allows us to recognize, segment and decompose the phonemes (sounds) that make up a word, facilitating the learning of skills such as reading and writing. This is a difficult process for a blind child, for this reason, the objective of this project is to implement an interactive system that serves as a support tool for the development of phonological awareness of blind children between five to seven years old who are studying early grades. Pistacho offers blind children a non-traditional experience for learning the vowels, this has two components: software and hardware. The first consists of an application developed for the phonoaudiologist and the teachers of the institute in charge of the pre-garden and garden grades. The hardware component consists of a character called Pistacho, who suggests children do a set of activities to reinforce topics seen in class, that help the development of consciousness phonological. As part of the process to obtain the proposed system, first of all, users were approached through interviews and observation in the environment, which resulted in the detection of a series of needs and difficulties presented by the students at the time of developing phonological awareness. The specification of the requirements was made from the information collected and analyzed, to subsequently design and implement the components, software, and hardware. Finally, the system was evaluated with the users, to make the respective adjustments.