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TESI project is an ERASMUS+ project, Key Action 3: Support for policy reform - Social inclusion through education, training and youth, founded by the European Commission starting in January 2018. The objective of TESI is to bring novel training software solution which integrates learning models that can, for the first time, effectively leverage multi-modal behavioural cues, of learners with different types of verbal disorders, to realize fully automated context-sensitive estimation of engagement levels of learners and, at the same time, provide them an opportunity to express themselves. Our paper is concerned with the analysis of the target groups’ needs. Two steps are going to be accomplished in this part of our research: (i) definition of the profiles of the target groups with their basic characteristics: the users - people with verbal communication disabilities who will use the software in order to compensate their communication deficiencies by expressing themselves using graphical symbols and annotations and the tutors - people who work together with the users (teachers, parents), and who will create personalized instruments (instructions and expression resources) for their users; (ii) defining the mechanisms by which the proposed model could improve the way in which the students can express themselves, can acquire knowledge and can gain skills. The results will allow us to propose a didactic model and to create an educational technology.

Acknowledgement
This work is supported by the ERASMUS+ KA3 Project: Adaptive Personalized System for Creating Expression Tools in Social Inclusion of Learners with Verbal Communication Disabilities – TESI, No. 592177-EPP-1-2017-1-BG-EPPKA3-IPI-SOC-IN.

Keywords: social inclusion, m-learning, disadvantaged people, new project;