Ambiente Virtual para Verificar o Nível de Leitura de Crianças com Limitações Motoras.

The children with motor limitations are generally frustrated when, due to those limitations, their school performances are below their class colleagues. In this work it was developed a virtual environment with the goal of evaluating some initial knowledge of reading without generating stress and anxiety. This environment presents games tests with two phases implemented in Flash. The first phase evaluates if the children get to distinguish between letters and other expression forms (numbers, symbols and scribbles), and in the second phase it is noticed that the words can be written in several ways without modifying the sense, such as capital, lower, hand letter and printed letters. For having been implemented in Flash, the executable file of the virtual environment was small, allowing that it is used in any computer. The game test was analyzed by a linguist and also a psychologist. The linguist concluded that the virtual environment can evaluate these capacities as efficiently as the conventional tests. The psychologist considered that the developed method should not provoke stress and anxiety because the children don't know that are being tested. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]