KAPEAN: A supportive tool for observing performance and concentration of children with learning difficulties

In emergent economies such as Mexican, most schools lack resources to cover or develop programs when teachers assess children with special needs. Teaching practice for children with learning difficulties require, for instance, well-trained therapists, special learning materials, adequate classroom settings, and supportive technology equipment. KAPEAN is a software tool that offers a set of educational activities that can help therapists organize interventions with children where attention, memory, visouspatial, and reasoning skills are reinforced. Data collected from the participant´s experiences is processed in order to get insights of the performance and concentration exposed by children. Results inform that there are activities with a higher level of difficulty than others regarding cognition and interactional experience. The activity demanding memory skills was especially difficult for all of the participants. It was also found that the level of concentration children have when developing a task might be influencing their performance.