Eye-Tracking in the Diagnosis, Therapy and Education of Children with Multiple Disability: An Outline of Issues
Eye-Tracking in the Diagnosis, Therapy and Education of Children with Multiple Disability: An Outline of Issues

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the possibility of using eye-tracking in the education of non-speaking children with multiple disabilities. The author uses the analysis of the existing data from the perspective of her own therapeutic experience in the use of eye-tracking in work with preschool children with multiple disabilities. In the text, she first presents the principle of eye-tracking, and then she shows its use in marketing, cartography, IT, as well as learning techniques. She indicates eye-tracking as a potential tool for communication with non-speaking children and for their education. In the following part, she presents Polish devices that use eye-tracking technology in diagnostic, therapeutic and educational activities. The research shows that eye-tracking can change the lives of children for whom the only communication channel is sight, because it offers them new forms of spending free time, learning and communicating with the environment. In addition, eye-tracking technology can and must be used to re-diagnose children with multiple disabilities in whom psychological and pedagogical counselling centres – using traditional testing techniques – have recognised profound intellectual disability.

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