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The usage of touchscreen-assistive technology in the 21 st century seems very promising. There has been a rapid rise in interest regarding the use of touchscreen assistive technology as an intervention and interdisciplinary research field for children with autism. Inventing and designing a touchscreen-assistive application for children with autism is a delicate process as designing technologies for groups of individual with profiles other than one's own is always challenging where the life worlds and lived experience are far removed from the experience of typical individual. Participatory design process that has been conducted with children with autism earlier in the study has led towards the invention of touchscreen-assistive learning numeracy apps (TaLNA). The application is focusing on basic numeracy and calculation to support teaching and learning. User interface design has been used as a baseline in establishing the TaLNA apps. It is a complement from the traditional approaches such as call cards and cue cards which being applied at the touchscreen devices. The TaLNA apps is believe assist parents, teachers, and instructors to train and educate the children with autism while growing their engagement and interest in learning. It is a hope with the establishment of this application, they will be able to learn, memorize and recognize the numbers through the animated and interactive learning application. Thus, this research paper discusses the user interface design process of forming TaLNA in assisting the teaching of basic calculations to children with autism.
TaLNA App: An Interactive Numeracy Mobile Learning Application for Children with Autism
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In light of the COVID-19 pandemic's disruptions to education, there is a growing need for alternative learning methods, particularly for children with autism who thrive on routine and familiarity. This study aims to enhance numeracy learning for children with autism by using the touchscreen-assistive learning numeracy application (TaLNA) during the post-pandemic period, aligning with Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4 (quality education). Our primary focus is to leverage mobile learning through the TaLNA application to provide specialized educational content and remote progress monitoring. Combining mobile learning with SDG 4 principles ensures continuous access to education, promoting inclusivity and equity, even in challenging circumstances. Mobile learning offers personalized numeracy experiences tailored to individual needs, maintaining educational consistency and structure amidst disrupted routines and environments. This research has significant implications for instructors, teachers, and parents of children with autism, providing valuable insights for their pedagogical approaches.
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Background The use of information and communication technologies is transforming the lives of millions of people including children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). However, the process of developing a user-friendly and effective mobile app needs to follow a complex standard protocol and culture-sensitive customization, and involves multiple sectors. This complex work becomes even more challenging when considering children with ASD in low- and middle-income countries as the users. Objective This study aimed to design and develop a more intuitive mobile app to improve numeracy skills of children with ASD in Rwanda and evaluate the usability of the app. Methods A participatory design approach was utilized in this study in which 40 children with ASD, 5 teachers, and 10 parents of children with ASD participated in focus group discussions (FGDs) and usability testing. A narrative literature review was performed to explore existing mobile apps and compare previous studies to design th...
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Form design development study on autistic counting skill learning application
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Children with autism have their own set of impairments that affect their developments. Thus, the chance to attain self-determination may be critical for most if not all of autistic children. However, it is essential for them to obtain vital skill system in order to achieve a certain level of independent. Thus, it is necessary for every autistic children to acquire basic counting skills to enhance their self-determination. With the emergence of assistive learning technology such as Smartphone, PDA, tablets and laptop with touch screen facility, there are new certain ways to enrich the quality of life for individuals with autism. This study aims to explore the basic counting skills based dynamic visual for children with autism that will possibly be of assistance to parents, educators and facilitators in the development of digital assistive learning tools to meet the needs of autistic children's learning environment. From the proposed theoretical framework, an application was designed and tested on some of autistic users. Based on the observation of the experiment, the users showed positive attitude towards the outcome of the application.
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A MOBILE EDUCATIONAL APPLICATION FOR CHILDREN WITH AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDER
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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental syndrome that is defined by unusual, restricted, and repetitive behaviors along with deficit in social reciprocity and communications . There isn’t any widely accepted treatment for ASD’s. In spite of great improvements in early diagnosis and interventions, most children diagnosed with ASD are unlikely to live independently upon reaching adulthood. As the number of children diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) continues to grow in our country, we are reminded of the needs of this community. Language skills of children with ASD may vary on a wide spectrum. Some children may have difficulty developing language skills and following a conversation. While some children with ASD may be unable to speak, others may have rich vocabularies and be able to talk about specific subjects in great detail. Their communication skills vary depending upon their social and intellectual development. In order to support their development, teaching reading to them is crucially important. Literacy programs which are based on visual learning style of children with ASD show more steady progress at their reading comprehension. Following a rigorous and comprehensive research conducted on academic literature and software market, we conclude that there is lack of mobile educational applications designed to teach reading and writing in Turkish specifically to children with ASD. Our research objective is to develop mobile educational application software to teach reading and writing in Turkish to children with ASD. With regard to their visual learning style, Patricia Oelwein’s method (1995) is implemented to strengthen their comprehension through the stages of recognition, matching, selecting and naming.( Broun, 2004). We use tablets and smart phones as our application’s environment as children with ASD show interest in experiencing them. There is also evidence that touch screens are easier to use for some children with ASD because they may have difficulties of using different physical devices such as screen, mouse and/or keyboard in coordination.
Usability Operations on Touch Mobile Devices for Users with Autism
Journal of medical systems, 2017
The Autistic Spectrum Disorder is a cognitive disorder that affects the cognitive and motor skills; due that, users cannot perform digital and fine motor tasks. It is necessary to create software applications that adapt to the abilities of these users. In recent years has been an increase in the research of the use of technology to support autistic users to develop their communication skills and to improve learning. However, the applications' usability for disable users is not assessed objectively as the existing models do not consider interaction operators for disable users. This article focuses on identifying the operations that can easily be performed by autistic users following the metrics of KML-GOMS, TLM and FLM. In addition, users of typical development were included in order to do a comparison between both types of users. The experiment was carried out using four applications designed for autistic users. Participants were subjects divided in two groups: level 1 and level...