Development of Interactive Multimedia to Improve Letters Recognition for Children with Dyslexia

Abstract

This article discusses the development of interactive multimedia to improve the recognition of letters in dyslexic children. The background is the prevalence of dyslexic children who are quite a lot in elementary schools and the symptoms can even be found in children in early childhood education. This research uses the Research and Development (R & D) method, with the following steps: Research and information collecting, Planning, Developing Preliminary form of product, Preliminary field testing, product revision operational field testing, product revision, dissemination. The results obtained are interactive multimedia applications to recognize letters that have been validated by experts and limited trials that show an increase in the enthusiasm of dyslexic children in learning to recognize letters and an increase in their ability to recognize letters.