Results: Final Results

MOTOR AND SOCIAL SKILLS OF CHILDREN WITH DEVELOPMENTAL PROBLEMS – ACHIEVED RESULTS AND FUTURE JOINT ACTIONS

  1. Proposed, developed and tested by experiments is an innovative model for development by games of motor and social skills of children with special needs, supported and motivated by assistive intelligent sensor, computerized and robotic technologies
  2. New knowledge in medical-social and psycho-pedagogical sciences - enrich the methods for working with children with disorders and special needs
  3. New scientific and applied technical knowledge in the field of robotic systems and integrating them with innovative sensors and computer technology.
  4. Proposed, developed and tested by experiments is an innovative model for development by games of motor and social skills of children with special needs, supported and motivated by assistive intelligent sensor, computerized and robotic technologies
  5. New knowledge in medical-social and psycho-pedagogical sciences - enrich the methods for working with children with disorders and special needs
  6. New scientific and applied technical knowledge in the field of robotic systems and integrating them with innovative sensors and computer technology.
  7. Statistical analysis of the results of experiments for any particular game - at least 8 of the newly created games are fun and useful for children with special needs in the general opinion of teachers participating in the poll on global criterion “Success of the game"
  8. Proposed a new model for analysis and evaluation in the process of developing games, described in a scientific publication
  9. We first joint the efforts of scientists engineers, doctors, speech therapists, psychologists and special educators who have never had a common scientific interests
  10. An additional result of the project is that through the proposed play children perceive and gain experience on how to use modern computerized and robotic technologies that will define socially significant behaviour in the future
  11. Through information and publicity for the project we would like to build an INNOVATIVE VISION for the PLAY - RIGHT OF EVERY CHILD! and its FUNDAMENTAL ROLE for physical, cognitive, emotional and social development for children with special needs
  12. Financial Mechanism of the European Economic Area EEA Grant gave us the opportunity to test in practice our scientific expectations for the potential of assistive technologies used in play for children with disorders and special needs and the ability to do research in an area that is unclear and in its infancy

Sustainability of the Project

Based on the:

  • achieved scientific and practical results
  • increased motor and social activities that we observed
  • positive feedback with which children with special needs accepted games and new modern technology

we believe that new research with professors and students from engineer science in UiS and pedagogical-psychological and social science in UiS and SWU, as well as future joint actions with practitioners in the field specialists and representatives of regional resource centers and social assistance directorates must be continued within the framework of new projects.