A Design of Educational Multimedia Software for Disability: A Case Study for Deaf People

This paper focuses on develop a new multimedia courseware for disabilities students mainly for students who have hearing problem. This application can be used by deaf pupils to learn sign language by watching video and animation pictures to communicate with other deaf people. This system will be providing the student to select the alphabetical and see the picture and the sign language explanation. The student also allows selecting the number and picture to view and with the sign language explanation. With the navigation provide to e-MSL allow the student to access with easily

An Investigation on Learning Performance among Disabled People Using Educational Multimedia Software: A Case Study for Deaf People

The increasing number of people with hearing-impaired in Malaysia attracts to produce a variety of technologies, which can assist the deaf people in carrying out their tasks in everyday life as normal people. New technology can help to decrease the difficulty that hearing-impaired people faces in daily life to use the information services like normal people. Thus, this paper focuses on: i) developing a new multimedia courseware for pre-school students with hearing problem, and ii) comparing the deaf student’s learning performance before and after using the courseware. Four modules were developed for e-MSL courseware consist of alphabets, numbers, words and quizzes with colorful text, animation, sounds, video and pictures using Malaysian Sign Language (MSL). Sekolah Rendah Pendidikan Khas (SRPK) Indera Mahkota II, Kuantan has been chosen as the case study for data collection and for investigating the student learning performance on the courseware. The survey results show that 100% of the respondents have agreed that using e-MSL courseware managed to reduce the student learning time more than 80%. The result has indicated that students have shown better learning performance using e-MSL compared to traditional learning