Addizionario: words in your pocket

This paper describes Addizionario, a multilingual hypermedia laboratory for native language learning, addressed to children of nursery and primary schools. The features of the tool, which is child-centred, flexible, easy-to-use and interactive, make it suitable not only for normally skilled users, but also for those presenting more or less severe learning difficulties linked to both physical and cognitive impairment. The software, patented by the Italian National Research Council (C.N.R.), is used in numerous schools in Italy and abroad.