Explainable Deep Learning Approaches for Dyslexia Detection in English and Arabic Handwriting Using Convolutional Neural Networks and Transfer Learning
Dyslexia impacts 5–15% of school-aged children globally, but automated screening mechanisms to detect it are rare, and such tools are relatively scarce in non-Latin scripts. The work introduces a bilingual deep learning model for dyslexia preliminary diagnosis through digitalized handwriting samples in both English and Arabic. Two computational methods were employed and compared systematically: the page-oriented classification strategy and the character-oriented classification method. For Arabic, an EnhancedCNN architecture is proposed to classify whole-page scans end-to-end by coping with […]