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This article was in the State of Mind Award 2014 Junior Section

DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION OF A SOFTWARE FOR THE REHABILITATION OF CALCULATION: A STUDY PILOT

Author: John Rizzi (University of Padua)

Keywords: acalculia, language, software, rehabilitation

The main purpose of this study was to evaluate a rehabilitation software, created specifically for the deficit calculation. This study was designed to obtain a software aimed at the rehabilitation of the calculation, which takes account of what are the difficulties that each person can show. This feature makes the software flexible and adaptable to who runs the program. Rehabilitation using this software focuses on two specific domains: the formal calculation and ecological tasks, which displays real-life situations that require the use of numbers.

INTRODUCTION

Advertising message The importance of numbers in everyday life is, very often underestimated. The numbers are used in many activities and in different contexts. Grocery shopping, check your bank account, control our weight, the use of money, be on time for an appointment, cook, telephone are just some of the countless situations in which we resort to numerical skills. The numbers are also used to indicate a house number, the number of an office, the model of a car. Often, as well as understand and produce the numbers in daily activities is also required to perform calculations and comparisons.

For these reasons it is now recognized that an acquired disorder in the use of numbers and calculating can be seriously debilitating, making it paramount clinical evaluation and possible rehabilitation.
The recent interest in theoretical framework for this deficit is further justified by the fact that the acquired disorders of the calculation are not a rare phenomenon. The numerical skills are very sensitive to brain injury: according to Jackson and Warrington (1986), almost 10% of patients with injuries to the left side shows a selective deficit in arithmetic.

The ability to calculate is a cognitive process extremely complex. It is regarded as the province multifactorial involving competence verbal, spatial, memory and executive functions (Ardila, Galeano, & amp; Rosselli, 1998).

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