CreAppstories: Leisure and learning combine to help children with functional diversity

Different special education centers have incorporated the CreAppcuentos solution into their educational program, an application that, through the creation of stories, allows you to improve creative thinking and the creation of space-time sequences, in addition to promoting self-esteem and autonomy.

CreAppstories It is a tool that has been developed with children in mind, from up to 12 years, with special educational needs. An initiative has already been incorporated in several Spanish schools and centers to enhance the educational development of their students thanks to the combination of leisure and learning with the help of traditional classic stories..

Children who encounter difficulties when acquiring new knowledge require tools that motivate them to learn and help them understand the meaning of things.. Actions as everyday as adding up or differentiating what is right from what is wrong become complicated tasks., For this reason, they need stimuli that facilitate their learning..

In order to respond to these needs, the CreAppcuentos app has been developed., a tool that turns classic stories into new unique stories, with which children can learn in a playful way with their teachers and develop skills such as oral language, creative thinking and the creation of spatio-temporal sequences.

In the words of Feliciano Couto, special education teacher at the Ntra Sra de Lourdes center “with the children with functional diversity with whom we have tested CreAppcuentos, The activity is quite supported by the tutor, therapist or family. But it is this interaction between child and adult that makes learning situations possible., autonomy and creativity. "Now they are the ones who set the rules.".

In favor of self-esteem and autonomy

This application is helping to improve the self-esteem and autonomy of many children, especially those with autism. The fact that they are the protagonists of their own stories means that the tasks carried out in the centers are not as passive as ordinary learning..

The Creappcuentos application is being used in public and private education centers as an educational tool.

Besides, A working group has also been created with the Tadega association (Technologies for attention to diversity in Galician Education) to incorporate pictograms into the application.