An Educational Arabic Sign Language Mobile Application for Children with Hearing Impairment

Abstract

This research addresses the need for a mobile application to teach Arabic sign language to deaf children in the Arab world. Therefore, the team develop an educational android application to teach deaf children the Arabic sign language using gamification. Also, the research aims to investigate the impact of using a mobile application for Arabic sign language on children’s learning performance. To achieve its goals, the research entails two main stages. The first stage focuses on building the mobile application based on the literature review and on searching the Google and Apple stores for similar applications. In the second stage, an experiment is conducted on 10 deaf children—the experimental group adopted the mobile application for the learning process, whereas the control group followed the traditional learning approach. A pre-test and post-test was conducted and the results show that children who used the game-based mobile application performed better in their quiz.