Interactive game for the children with down syndrome on hand-eye coordination / Ima Nuruljannah Ismail

Down syndrome (DS) is one of the large condition caused of intellectual that impairment the hand-eye coordination. It difficulties that lead to delay many areas of development. For example, children with Down syndrome don’t develop motor skills in the same way that the typically-developing child does. They find ways to compensate for the differences in their physical make-up, and some of the compensations can lead to long-term complications, such as pain in the feet or the development of an inefficient walking pattern. Patients also will lose faith and lack motivation to continue the exercise when they observe that there is no improvement when undergoing traditional rehab at home. From this problems, an interactive game are built to help children with Down syndrome to improve their rehabilitations focuses on hand-eye coordination. This game use the simple movement that give improvement for the children focuses on movement of fingers and their eyes. The game has been tested for its functionality on five respondents. The result shows that the game is functioning well with Down syndrome though recovering progresses and encourage more recovering by using keyboard. By using the advanced technology as an Adobe Flash CS3, an interactive game gives positive feedback of eye gaze and hand action. This game also presents the development processes, and also results for the testing of the application including a verbal opinion.