Robotic toys for the disabled: new opportunities to learn, participate, have fun

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Published: Jan 1, 2009
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17471/2499-4324/308
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disability, robotic toys, robots, Educational Technology, Technology Enhanced Learning (TEL), Educational robotics

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Serenella Besio
Università della Valle d’Aosta, Aosta

Abstract

The reflection and research on an obvious problem, in pedagogy, psychology and clinical psychology: the fact that some populations of children - because of functional limitations or environmental deprivation - the experience of the game is precluded, and their development appears to be reduced by the fact that it 'was defined as the royal road to learning.

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Vol. 17 No. 2 (2009): TD47 - Dossier: Educational robotics
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Articles - Special Issue

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