THE POTENTIAL OF VIRTUAL LEARNING ENVIRONMENTS: IMPROVING QUALITY OF LIFE IN PATIENTS WITH LEARNING DISABILITY

The main objective of this paper is bringing into your attention the problem of persons with learning disabilities. Learning disabilities affect the brain's ability to receive, process, analyse, or store information and dyslexia is one of the most common learning disabilities. Also called specific reading disability, dyslexia is a common reading and language disorder. It is not linked to any kind of deficit in intelligence overall, educational opportunity, or motivational factors. It affects 5-10% of alphabetic language speakers and 1 in 10 children is dyslexic. Our research was focused on improvement of health of patients with learning disability through develop new approach with support of ICT for implementation of conventional methods used in logopedics in an integrated system which also allows remote monitoring and therapy (similar to telemedicine systems). This paper presents an e-health system for personalized therapy and online monitoring of patients with learning disabilities. Intended for teachers, educators, and specialists who are interested in the problems of learning disabilities, the paper presents a virtual learning environment necessary in the clinical teaching approach to children with dyslexia.