Using Online Handwritten Character Recognition in Assistive Tool for Students with Hearing and Speech Impairment
Mary Jane C. Samonte, Allyssa Raven I. Garcia, Bianca Janine D. Valencia, Michael Jae S. Ocampo · 2020
Students with hearing and speech impairment are approximately two years behind school due to their disability and the lack of research, few resources and documented practices on the aforementioned conditions that may provide guidance for classroom teachers and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs). Assistive technology helps resolve problems faced by people with physical, mental, intellectual and sensory impairments. It is any device, software or equipment that helps people work around their disability. This paper concentrates on implementing online handwritten character recognition (OHCR) in the web-based learning application as an assistive tool in developing the learning process of deaf and hard-of-hearing (HoH) students. OHCR is the ability of a computer to receive and interpret the handwriting input wherein the movement of the stylus or fingertip can be sensed as it accepts a string of coordinate pairs from the stylus or finger touching a pressure sensitive digital tablet. The OHCR feature in the application will aid students in learning how to complete a given basic Statistics problem and bypass an area of difficulty to achieve the academic outcome intended. Testing shows that the developed system can read 95 characters including numbers, lower and upper case letters, and special characters.