Mobile Application to Exercise Oral Language From a Systems Approach

Abstract

The primary means of human communication is language; it requires support to develop the ability to speak and it is not the same for everyone. Intellectual Disability (ID) makes the child learn and develop more slowly, leading to the development of language software. The chapter develops an application for mobile devices called Gradual Interactive Language (GIL), created through five stages of Soft Systems Methodology (SSM) and the classic model of software development. The results of the pilot test indicated that it is an alternative support to move from pre-language to language, not limited to children with ID, the only thing that would depend is the moment in which it will use; in addition to showing improvement through gradual exercises that allow the child to advance, considers the roles involved in the process of learning language (teachers, educators or therapists, parents, children, and technology), finally, a technical virtue of GIL is to run on any device regardless of the operating system it uses (iOS or Android).