Tech-Abled Dialogical Reading Storybooks For Children With Special Needs

Problem Statement

Children with special needs have limited learning opportunities outside of school as most mainstream digital and physical storybooks are not adapted to their learning needs.

Solution

Blended Concept's interactive and inclusive digital storybooks and companion games promote dialogical reading* for children with special needs and improve caregivers’ competencies in communicating with their children.

*Dialogic reading is an interactive style of reading and storytelling that promotes brain development and imagination in children while improving their language and social-emotion skills.

Outcomes

Caregivers, teachers and therapists can continue supporting the growth and development of children with special needs outside of school with dialogical resources adapted to meet the learning needs of a wider spectrum of disabilities.

More about grantee

Blended Concept Pte Ltd is a social enterprise that aspires to level social inequalities and build capabilities. They design and develop learning initiatives to help social beneficiaries overcome learning barriers and have equitable learning opportunities.

Blended Concept is collaborating with Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore to co-develop this product.