Application of Artificial Neural Network to the identification of students with learning disabilities

Proceedings of the 2006 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ICAI'06

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages 162-168

  Wu, Tung Kuang ^a   Meng, Ying Ru ^b   Huang, Shian Chang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHANGHUA UNIVERSITY OF EDUCATION   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Artificial intelligence; Artificial Neural Network; Diagnosis; Learning disabilities; Special education

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSIS PROBLEM; EMPIRICAL FINDINGS; LEARNING DISABILITIES; SCHOLARLY RESEARCH; SPECIAL EDUCATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DIAGNOSIS; EDUCATION COMPUTING; NEURAL NETWORKS;

HANDICAPPED PERSONS;

EID: 84857173377     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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