Assistive E-Learning System for the Learning Disabled

Learning Disabilities (LD) are usually hidden disabilities that affect many individuals who usually have average or above average intelligence. It is acquired before, during or soon after birth and affects an individual's ability to learn, all through his/her life. LD may also involve difficulties with organizational skills and social interaction. These difficulties can be alleviated by providing appropriate e-learning environment for them. We had proposed a framework, an Assistive Learning Environment (ALE) to enhance the learning experience of LD students in their academic life1, which is capable for recognizing what content has to delivered, variability associated with each LD learner and transformations associated with the content to deliver it to the LD learner. The system architecture is developed for our framework whose objective is to transform the given content in a way acceptable by the specific LD learner. This transformation is a complex process and it has to be done at various levels. Assistive E-Learning System, a prototype implementation of our framework has been completed and sample interactions are presented in order to assess the system's strengths and weakness. The system provides the user to indicate transformations and configurations not appropriate to the user.