E-Learning Platform for Hearing Impaired Children with Handwritten Character Recognition using CNN

Abstract

Hearing impairment is an example of a disability that can affect a child’s education in a variety of ways. E-learning has been proved to be an excellent learning approach for students as it provides many advantages. One advantage is that children can save their time as it provides the opportunity to engage in studies from anywhere in the world. Although the e-learning method may have various advantages, it also has several disadvantages that need to be addressed. This online learning technique may not be as helpful for children under the age of five as it is for the older generation. For children with hearing impairment, this strategy of education will be even worse. Hence, these children should have an appropriate alternative for learning letters and numbers during crisis situations. The major goal of this study is to critically evaluate the need for an alternative solution. The suggested e-learning platform helps children learn letters and numbers step by step. This platform also teaches children to write numbers and both Sinhala and English characters. In order to recognize the letters and numbers children write, the system uses convolutional neural networks (CNN). In addition, the system provides basic quizzes and activities to ensure an engaging/interesting learning process. This study was conducted with the goal of improving the effectiveness of e-learning for hearing impaired children