scholarly journals Development of a mobile application to improve numeracy skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: Participatory Design and Usability Study (Preprint)

10.2196/21471 ◽  
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theoneste Ntalindwa ◽  
Mathias Nduwingoma ◽  
Evariste Karangwa ◽  
Tanjir Rashid Soron ◽  
Alphonse Uworwabayeho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Usability Study ◽  
Numeracy Skills ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

scholarly journals Development of a mobile application to improve numeracy skills of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders in Rwanda (Preprint)

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Theoneste Ntalindwa ◽  
Mathias Nduwingoma ◽  
Evariste Karangwa ◽  
Tanjir Rashid Soron ◽  
Alphonse Uworwabayeho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Numeracy Skills ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
User Friendly

BACKGROUND The use of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) in education promising from decades ago. There has been rapid development of different ICT tools to improve the quality of life of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). However, the process of developing a user friendly and effective tool such as mobile application needs to follow complex standard protocol, culture-sensitive customization, and multisectoral involvements. This complex work becomes more challenging for children with ASD in Low and Middle-Income Countries. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to develop a user-friendly mobile application for children with autism to improve numeracy skills in Rwanda. METHODS The application was developed through participatory action research involving educators and human-computer interaction researchers, subject matter expert clinicians, and target users. A comprehensive beta testing version of the application was developed that considered educators' feedback from focus groups, and observations of children with ASD when using the application. RESULTS In the findings of this study, the participants suggested three points to consider when designing the interface for children with ASD. (1) Graphic design principals, (2) User interface design, and (3) Success recognition and messages. The mobile application is believed to assist parents and educators to train and educate children with ASD to be able to learn, memorize and recognize the numbers that figure on coins used in Rwandan currency and participate in different economic activities in their families. CONCLUSIONS Overall, it has become clear that it is possible to develop mobile applications that respond to the needs of children with Autism Spectrum Disorders to eliminate the barrier of learning mathematical skills. Empowering skills of the use of ICT in teaching and support of learners with ASD inclusive environment can also bring the idea of features to be added into the developed application. This underscores the relevance of the needs of more assistive technologies to be developed in the response of each societal problems

scholarly journals PICTOTEMPO: An App for Personal Organization in Autism Spectrum Disorders

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 52
Author(s):  
Noé Vila-Muñoz ◽  
Paula M. Castro ◽  
Óscar Fresnedo
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Mobile Device ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Spectrum Disorder ◽  
Cognitive Diversity ◽  
Visual Supports ◽  
Spectrum Disorders

In this work, we develop a mobile application which allows to create digital schedules for children with autism spectrum disorder. These schedules comprise a sorted sequence of tasks or activities which facilitates children to understand and anticipate the upcoming events, thus reducing their stress and frustration. For that, the activities are identified and described with the help of visual supports (pictograms) which can be visualized on the screen of any mobile device. The developed application also allows to gather valuable information about the performance and interests of the children from their interactions with it, helping to refine and define more appropriate routines or support therapies for the children. In this way, the aim of this work is to contribute to improve the lives of people with functional and cognitive diversity, especially children with these disorders, and also their families.

Disfluency Characteristics Observed in Young Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders: A Preliminary Report

2010 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 42-50 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura W. Plexico ◽  
Julie E. Cleary ◽  
Ashlynn McAlpine ◽  
Allison M. Plumb
Keyword(s):  
Autism Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Young Children ◽  
Children With Autism ◽  
Descriptive Study ◽  
Autism Spectrum ◽  
Typically Developing ◽  
Children With Asd ◽  
Young Children With Autism ◽  
Spectrum Disorders ◽  
Developmental Stuttering

This descriptive study evaluates the speech disfluencies of 8 verbal children between 3 and 5 years of age with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). Speech samples were collected for each child during standardized interactions. Percentage and types of disfluencies observed during speech samples are discussed. Although they did not have a clinical diagnosis of stuttering, all of the young children with ASD in this study produced disfluencies. In addition to stuttering-like disfluencies and other typical disfluencies, the children with ASD also produced atypical disfluencies, which usually are not observed in children with typically developing speech or developmental stuttering. (Yairi & Ambrose, 2005).

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