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Problem Statement
How might we help young children struggling with dysgraphia and other writing disabilities improve their handwriting?
Background
Current treatment for dysgraphia:
- Therapist holding the child’s hand to help them write
- Not scalable
- Pencil grip and writing frame
- Not interactive
Solution
Our robot Jami will provide an interactive experience to help children write.
Using the Rev.ai speech to text API, the child can say a letter or a word, which will then be transcribed. The Arduino will receive the text from the speech and write it out.
Challenges we ran into
Integrating all of the parts together: sending in the letter commands from the transcript to the Arduino
What we learned
- API integration
- Arduino
- Webapps
What's next for HackMIT
- Improve hardware design to make it more user friendly to children
- Learn from child’s strengths/weaknesses to develop better methods to teach them how to write
- Display and share results of improvement to other children struggling with dysgraphia
