Preliminary study of Early Reading Courseware for Down Syndrome Children

As special needs children like Down Syndrome (DS) have reading difficulty, lack of motivation and require a longer time to complete certain tasks compared to normal students, multimedia courseware is seen able to give positive influence to this group. This paper discusses a preliminary study on a male DS student from a special needs school since each of the DS children is unique. Instruments are used to find out problems in the student's reading process, characters, related experience and the DS student readiness to learn. The findings contribute to the conceptual framework which is developed to assist researcher to design the early reading multimedia courseware (MEL-SindD) for DS students.