Computational environment based on applied behavior analysis to support child reading education

The learning of reading is one of the challenges of school and one of its most important activities, because reading is the basis for other school activities and a fundamental element for the exercise of citizenship. The applied behavior analysis have been useful for the development of reading and writing instruction programs by means of two paradigms: the stimulus equivalence that seeks to identify relationships between stimuli in the teaching of reading and the smaller units than a word which uses the concept of control by minimal units. Some computer systems have been developed to support the use of these paradigms performing automated collection, storage and presentation of data. However, these systems require higher availability, both to broaden their use, and to facilitate access by teachers, researchers and students. This paper aims to present the WEquiv, a computational environment designed for Internet users with the purpose of supporting child reading education through the research process based on Applied Behavior Analysis. It is expected that the environment can support the transfer of behavior analysis results applied in the context of reading instruction for the school environment.