SE.S and ICTEACH, CYPRUS, sesses@cytanet.com.cy

ICTEACH HAS DEVELOPED A BIG SERIES OF SOFTWARE:

1. ALFA for phoneme/grapheme association
2. LEXICON A-Z a software for early reading, with more than 200 learning activities like reading, spelling comprehension, oral expression
3. Subtitles for research purposes
4. Contributed to the developement of MAPS (Mental Atributes Profiling System)
5. Programmed the printings of the ENSFINOMATA
6. Reading for the hearing impaired

PES IS AN AUGMENTATIVE ALTERNATIVE COMMUNICATION SYSTEM DEVELOPED BY P. MAKRIS IN AN EFFORT TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF THE SEVERELY, COMMUNICATIVELY IMPAIRED PEOPLE.

THE SOFTWARE IS CUSTOMIZABLE TO THE USER'S PERSONAL NEEDS, IT MAKES USE OF SCANNING AND SWITCHES AND IT IS AN EXCELLENT TOOL FOR COMMUNICATION, FOR EDUCATION, FOR PLEASURE, FOR SOCIAL INTEGRATION.

ONE OF THE STRONG FEATURES OF THE SYSTEM IS THE CHATTING MODULE, THE SMS MODULE AND THE MODULE FOR EMAIL SENDING.

SUBTILTES IS A SOFTWARE WHICH WAS DEVELOPED IN AN EFFORT TO INVESTIGATE THE NEED FOR THE DEVELOPEMENT OF NEW FEATURES ON DIGITAL TV. THE IDEA IS THAT USERS WILL NEED CUSTOMIZABLE SUBTITLES WHICH WILL CONTRIBUTE TO THEIR READING AND UNDERSTANDING.

A RESEARCH WAS CONDUCTED IN CYPRUS AMONG DYSLEXIC AND NON DYSLEXIC STUDENTS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL AGES AND THE RESULTS ARE STILL PRELIMINARY SO CONCLUSIONS CANNOT SAFELY BE DRAWN.

THE KEYBOARD IS SCAN. SPEED CAN BE SET BY THE USER. USERS CAN WRITE BY PRESSING THEIR SWITCH WHENEVER A LETTER IS HIGHLIGHTED. THEY CAN ALSO SELECT FROM LISTS, USE ACRONYMS, SEND EMAILS OR CHAT ON THE INTERNET.

The research was contacted in primary schools in Cyprus in 2004. The purpose of the research was to:

1. To examine whether the reading skills of mentally retarded children match with the skills of non retarded children of the same age or of younger age.
2. To decide which learning approach is better for the above group i.e. visual, auditory, combination of these(word, sentence, picture, sounds).

It was found that their reading skills do not meet with children of their age or even children with younger age.

More details of the reseach will be found and downloaded from this site soon.

* I do not mind teaching with another teacher.\n* I do not believe this method could help.\n* Compatibility of teachers predifines the success or failure\n* I would love to try it\n* I have no idea.\n

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SMS USE BY HEARING IMPAIRED, RESEARCH

1. Pantelis makris
2. Neofytos Panagi
3. Constantinos Antreou
4. Eliada Pampoulou

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MATHEMATICS (COINS AND NOTES, SOFTWARE
1. Antreas Savva
2. Demetra Anaxagorou
3. Sozos Karageorgiou
4. Rannie Leodie
5. Pantelis Makris

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LEARNING TOGETHER: BICOMMUNAL LANGUAGE LEARNING, SOFTWARE
1. Orcun Kamal

In 1984 the present head of the group Mr. Pantelis Makris was handed a Spectrum computer and asked, by his school principal, to use it with his hearing impaired students.

Very soon he realized his limitations, as well as the potentials of the little machine and started, with some colleagues, developing the first Greek fonts for the Spectrum.

This was the first time that teachers, who later became members of the group, found it necessary to work together and utilize technology for education.

Soon after many teachers joined the group and proceeded in the development of various software and special educational solutions.

Pantelis Makris is an Inspector of Special Education working for the Ministry of Education and Culture. He is also the President of the Special Needs Department of the Cyprus Neuroscience and Technology Institute.He introduced computers both in normal schools and special schools since 1984. He won 5 international awards for his outstanding work with computers and his contribution to the special needs children and adults.