This is the application to help deaf children read

For some time now, audiobooks seem to have risen from their ashes under the protection of applications such as Storytel. Some applications that, without a doubt, make life much easier for blind people who want to enjoy reading a good book and, perhaps, do not have its version in braille. If we talk about deaf children, we are entering quite tricky terrain. What reinforcement does a deaf child have to learn to read? In addition to teachers and pedagogues, mobile applications can also become a good ally for deaf children, as is the case with the very recent 'StorySign'.

Deaf children will learn to read better thanks to StorySign

Thanks to 'StorySign' a deaf child will be able to understand books to learn to read thanks to his virtual assistant that will translate into the language of signs all those textbooks. The application has been developed by the Artificial Intelligence department of the Chinese brand Huawei and comes to help the more than 32 million deaf children in the world. After deploying to different countries, it finally arrives in Spain to make life easier for parents of deaf children and, of course, for themselves.

In addition, to make the application much more attractive for these children, the company that has been in charge of its design is Aardman Animations, legendary animation studio creator of 'Shaun the Sheep' or the characters from 'Wallace and Gromit', as well as films well known to children such as 'Chiken Run: Evasion on the farm'.In this way, the child will find the learning method proposed by StorySign even more attractive.

For deaf children it is tremendously difficult to associate words with their meaning in real life. 90% of deaf children are born to parents who can hear perfectly and learning words related to their meaning can be very difficult for them. Thanks to StorySign, the child will find, from a very young age, the necessary help to alleviate this inconvenience thanks to her bookstore of children's stories. The child will be able to select a book from among all those available in the StorySign bookstore and, when opening it and focusing on its pages with the mobile, a friendly character will appear, called Star, who will translate the phrases on the page into sign language.

At first the application will include some children's classics such as 'Peter Rabbit' or 'Three little bunnies' Parents must have a physical copy of the book so that the StorySign app 'reads' it to them and children can learn correctly.The application is fully functional in all Android terminals but especially in Huawei devices, since they are the ones that have been used to develop the application.

This application is totally free although, according to comments posted on the application's page in the Play Store, many users complain that you have to buy the book physically in order to use the application. The application has a weight of 68 MB. Requires Android version 6.0 or higher to work.

So now you know, if you have a deaf child and it is difficult for you to learn to read thanks to StorySign you will have help extra.