doc. Mgr. Čeněk Šašinka, Ph.D.
Principle Investigator
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DEVELEX
Re-education of dyslexia and development of reading skills
Principle Investigator : Doc. Šašinka Čeněk
DEVELEX:
An interactive automated adaptive software and intervention tasks for re-education of dyslexia and development of reading skills.
Uniting Education and Community
The project aims to create cooperation between the Pedagogical and Psychological Counselling Centre, the library network and parents. It is based on current pedagogy, statistics, psychology, optometry and IT knowledge.
Eye-tracking
DeveLex is based on the principle of tracking eye movements
Cognitive modelling
The advanced computing module enables real-time adaptation to the child's current level of ability, making use of the proximal development zone principle.
A comprehensive solution
The project includes not only IT solutions, batteries for re-education and development of reading skills, but also adaptation and development of the whole system of care and services in dyslexia intervention.
The project responds to a society-wide phenomenon of inequality in education related to various disadvantaged groups. The project is based on the 2030+ Strategy, which aims to change this situation. This state of affairs relates, among other things, to the ever-increasing number of pupils diagnosed with dyslexia, as well as the gradual decline in reading literacy among primary school pupils due to a lack of access to digital education, which became apparent during the covid-19 pandemic.
Literacy is an essential component for students' education as well as their emotional and psychosocial development. There are different approaches for re-educating dyslexia and developing reading skills. The more thoroughly this intervention is implemented, the greater the chance for improvement. However, a crucial part of such an intervention is easy accessibility for pupils and their parents, which can be achieved in cooperation with libraries, as the Czech Republic has the densest network of libraries in the world, which can ensure easy and effective intervention for these groups.
The Essence of the Project
- Using a multidisciplinary approach - we link the humanities (psychology, pedagogy, library science), IT and technology (creating an app/software, eye tracking as a key tool for battery functionality), non-medical sciences (optometry, eye movements as a key indicator for the system's work).
- Linking technical and non-technical research direction - we link the core of SHUV lying in the field of pedagogy, special education, psychology and also the technical direction, which is the creation of a software platform.
- Using new technological directions in the humanities and social sciences - the project builds on the use of eye tracking to create functional and relatively easy to access applications. This aims at providing a digital form of the created output and then making the product available to the general public (parents of dyslexic pupils) as a target group.
Project Phases
- Introductory workshop and presentation of the current state of dyslexia re-education. January 1 2024
- Developed statistical (cognitive) model of eye movements January 1 2025
- The ability to efficiently and in real time estimate individual eye movement pattern parameters as an indicator of a child's progress January 1 2026
Implemented Workshops
17. 5. 2024: DeveLex - Reeducation of Dyslexia - Practical workshop (Cognition and Artificial Life Conference)
The workshop introduced the concept of a solution for the re-education of dyslexia and the development of reading skills, based on eye-tracking technology. Eye-tracking is not only a tool for monitoring the reading process but also serves as a user interface. A significant challenge is to design the resulting system in a way that can be widely implemented in institutions, such as libraries. Workshop organized within the TAČR Sigma project "Reeducation of Dyslexia and Development of Reading Skills Using Eye-Tracking"
29. 5. 2024: Dyslexia re-education using eye-tracking (library perspective): an introduction to the DeveLex comprehensive re-education system (NASIV)
The main goal of the workshop is to introduce the concept of a comprehensive system DeveLex, which is aimed at dyslexia intervention based on three key parameters: adaptability, scalability and interactivity of the system to support dyslexic reading, taking into account the needs and variability of dyslexic children's reading progress. The DeveLex system will then be implemented in libraries and a discussion with the professional public (librarians) will be carried out during the workshop.
Team
doc. Mgr. Stanislav Ježek, Ph.D.
Co-investigator
Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
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Mgr. Bc. Nicol Dostálová
Co-investigator
Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
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Mgr. Kateřina Jochecová - Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Mgr. Michaela Vojtěchovská - Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
Mgr. David Košatka - Department of Information and Library Studies – Faculty of Arts
RNDr. Stanislav Popelka, Ph.D. - Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
Mgr. Roman Švaříček, Ph.D. - Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
Mgr. Jiřina Bednářová - Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
Mgr. Petra Pátková Daňsová, Ph.D. - Department of Psychology – Faculty of Social Studies
Adam Dostál - Department of Educational Sciences – Faculty of Arts
The project website is continuously updated.