Joy Learning: Smartphone Application For Children With Parkinson Disease

TL;DR

This paper introduces a smartphone application designed to help children with Parkinson's disease improve social skills and problem-solving abilities through real-life scenario observations, aiming to enhance their social interaction and learning.

Contribution

The study presents a novel mobile app tailored for juvenile Parkinson's patients to facilitate social skill development via experiential learning.

Findings

Application enhances children's involvement in learning activities.

Children show improved social problem-solving skills.

The app effectively addresses social and communication challenges.

Abstract

Parkinson's is a Neurologic disorder that not only affects the human body but also their social and personal life. Especially children having the Parkinson's disease come up with infinite difficulties in different areas of life mostly in social interaction, communication, connectedness, and other skills such as thinking, reasoning, learning, remembering. This study gives the solution to learning social skills by using smartphone applications. The children having Parkinson's disease (juvenile) can learn to solve social and common problems by observing real-life situations that cannot be explained properly by instructors. The result shows that the application will enhance their involvement in learning and solving a complex problem.