Kataluga: Software to Treat Dyslexia and Other Reading Difficulties
This first publication of the month of December we have decided to address the subject of an interesting educational and health app. His name is "Kataluga" and accurately addresses the problem of Dyslexia.
The best thing is, it is a free and open app, as recorded in its license file (copyright) and what comes in language Euskera y Spanish.
GeoGebra: Mathematical application for education at all levels
And as usual, before we dive into today's topic of the "Kataluga", we will leave for those interested in exploring some of our previous related posts with Education and Learning, the following links to them. So that you can easily explore them, if necessary, after reading this publication:
"GeoGebra is math software for all educational levels. Dynamically brings together geometry, algebra, statistics, and calculus into graphical, analytical, and spreadsheet organizational records. GeoGebra, with its free agility of use, brings together a vital and growing community. Across the world millions of enthusiasts embrace it and share GeoGebra designs and applications." GeoGebra: Mathematical application for education at all levels
Kataluga: Free and Free Software Against Dyslexia
What is dyslexia?
Given the, "Kataluga" treats the dyslexia We will briefly explain what this is:
"Dyslexia is a learning disorder that involves difficulty in reading due to problems identifying speech sounds and understanding how these are related to letters and words (decoding). Dyslexia, which is also called reading difficulty, affects areas of the brain that process language. People with dyslexia have normal intelligence and usually normal vision as well. Most children with dyslexia can be successful in school with the help of a tutor or a specialized teaching program." Dyslexia (Mayo Clinic)
What is Kataluga?
According to his Official website, "Kataluga" It is briefly described as follows:
"Kataluga is a program created to treat dyslexia and other reading and writing acquisition problems. It is a set of exercises that make the treatment more enjoyable."
And among many other things, they detail the following:
"In total Kataluga contains more than 5.000 tasks. That is, it includes meta-linguistics exercises to exercise phonological awareness using graphemes-phonemes, syllables, words and phrases. The activities are exposed through sounds, voices, text and images. There are 30 exercises that manage about 600 images. Most of the exercises are generated under the criteria of the letters and words that the teacher has previously indicated through the configuration. That is, the teacher can mark which graphemes are going to work with each student and what words are of interest to work with the student."
More related information
And then, as we often do with many of the explored applications, we will briefly show their way of download, installation and some screenshots (screenshots) to get to know it a little more before installing and testing it.
Installation
Once your ".Deb file" de 32 bits y 64 bits It only remains to install it in the usual way that each one wishes. Remember that, in case of using the Mozilla Firefox Internet browser, should on the previous links, press the right mouse button and select the menu option "Save link as" for a successful download of the files.
In our practical case, the installation was done with the following command:
«sudo apt install ./Descargas/kataluga_2.0-1_amd64.deb»
Screen shots
Once installed and run through the Main Menu of the Operating System (MilagrOS) that we have used, and which in turn is based on MXLinux 19 (Debian 10), you can now open it without problems and explore the entire program content, distributed among 6 buttons, as shown below:
Interface Language: Button 1
Image / Word Correspondence: Button 2
Default language of the user profile used: Button 3
Change typeface of the graphical interface: Button 4
Use only uppercase letters in the graphical interface: Button 5
Various general settings: Button 6
Discharge
Finally, if you like the related topics of the Free Software and Open Source with Education, we recommend this last article, previously published:
Summary
In summary, "Kataluga" is a good example of what useful and essential What can be Free Software and Open Source in many areas, especially those as important as Education and Health. Since, for example, with "Kataluga" you can treat the Dyslexia in an easy and accessible way for many Spanish speakers.
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