La Mesita: Inclusive Software for Learning How to Read
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Summary
This purpose of this app is to encourage children with special education needs how to read using a flexible, natural and fun method involving pathways that stimulate a range of skills such as auditory discrimination, phonological skills, linguistic skills, alphabet principles, and reading and writing.
Potential Use
Can be used as a resource by foundations and institutions working with special needs children.
Development Status
TRL 5 – large-scale field prototype (in the app store)
Advantages
La Mesita is an app that can downloaded for free on touch devices, recommended for tablets. An Internet connection is required for downloading the app but not for using it.
Intellectual Property
- LA MESITA, registered on August 24, 2017, under registration No. 281,772 at the Intellectual Property Rights Department of the National Department of Archives, Libraries and Museums (Dirección de Archivos, Bibliotecas y Museos).
- MANUAL LA MESITA (instruction manual): registered on August 24, 2017, under registration No. 281,766 at the Intellectual Property Rights Department of the National Department of Archives, Libraries and Museums.
- ABCDETi Prelector (pre-reader tool): registered on August 24, 2017, under registration No. 281,774 at the Intellectual Property Rights Department of the National Department of Archives, Libraries and Museums.
- MANUAL ABCDETi Prelector (pre-reader tool instruction manual): registered on August 24, 2017, under registration No. 281,767 at the Intellectual Property Rights Department of the National Department of Archives, Libraries and Museums.
Opportunity
Explore the possibility of mass distribution in other Spanish-speaking countries. Moreover, La Mesita has been translated/adapted to English (Tiny Table) which opens up the opportunity for mass distribution in English-speaking countries
Research Team
Ricardo Rosas, Ph.D. in Psychology, University of Berlin, Germany. Psychologist and Licensed Psychology with an undergraduate degree from Catholic University of Chile, Director of the Center.