Desarrollo de una aplicación multimedia de comunicación alternativa y aumentativa para personas con discapacidad intelectual leve en la “Casa de la Caridad” de Penipe.

Abstract

A multimedia application of alternative and augmentative communication was developed for people with mild intellectual disability in the ¨Casa de la Caridad¨ from Penipe. It is based on the scientific method, which allows knowing specialized cases in the communication issues within the Franciscana community. The observational method was used during coexistence carried out to access relevant information of the people´s daily life, who go to the social assistance center, and for the evaluation of the system, surveys with qualifications referring to the Linkert scale were applied. By acquiring information from the case study, mobile device and Android Studio software. It is associated with a mobile application several multimedia elements such as pictograms and sounds, which helped to understand the ideas that the people want to express towards people outside the Social Assistance Center. Surveys, which were applied to a group of visitors and responsible personnel, who know the conduct and behavior of people with limitations, support the system evaluation. It was obtained a favorable result with the implementation of the communication system when evaluating parameters such as functionality, usability, efficiency, and portability with a greater acceptance of 82.34%. It was concluded that that the augmentative and alternative system improves the communication between people with mild intellectual disability with the rest of society because it can be used in public or private environments supervised by a head of the center. It is recommended to establish possible conditions for the mobile device security such as the adaptation of a sustainable protector that connects the user and avoid mobility problems to avoid drops or disasters of the device