LODE: Global Reasoning on e-Stories for Deaf Children

Due to a limited exposition to the language in its spoken form in their first years of life, deaf children lack the primary means of acquiring literacy skills. In this paper, we present LODE, a web-based interactive tool for the literacy of Italian deaf children. LODE proposes written e-stories and elicits children to globally reason on them through interactive exercises, developed with the support of an automated reasoner and a natural language processor. The LODE’s users are also invited to collaborate and exchange their productions in an interactive manner.