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Technology-enhanced discriminative programs for children with autism

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PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

Pages 331 - 334

https://doi.org/10.4108/icst.pervasivehealth.2014.255258

Published: 20 May 2014 Publication History

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Autism impacts a subject's communication, socialization and language abilities with different degrees of severity. Intensive therapy is needed to improve and maintain these abilities over time. Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) enriches communication with images, video or gestures to help children with autism understand a task. Discrete Trial Training (DTT), breaking up a task into small trials of increasing levels of difficulty (structured trials), is used in teaching autistic children. In this paper, we compare the progress of seven autistic children while carrying out both traditional and technology-enhanced Applied Behavior Analysis programs, including matching, receptive and expressive trials. Results show that with ABCD software learning time is reduced, as children in the sample required less time to master new articles and generalize previously mastered skills.

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PervasiveHealth '14: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 2014

459 pages

ISBN:9781631900112

General Chair:
Andreas Hein
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Susanne Boll
OFFIS-Institute for IT, Oldenburg, Germany
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Friedrich Köhler
Charité, Berlin, Germany

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PervasiveHealth '14: 8th International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare

May 20 - 23, 2014

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Artoni SBastiani LBuzzi MBuzzi MCurzio OPelagatti SSenette C(2018)Technology-enhanced ABA intervention in children with autismUniversal Access in the Information Society10.1007/s10209-017-0536-x17:1(191-210)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10209-017-0536-x
Bondioli MPelagatti SBuzzi MBuzzi MSenette CHurst AFindlater LMorris M(2017)ICT to Aid Dental Care of Children with AutismProceedings of the 19th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility10.1145/3132525.3134799(321-322)Online publication date: 19-Oct-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3132525.3134799
Chan RBai XChen XJia SXu XKaye JDruin ALampe CMorris DHourcade J(2016)iBeacon and HCI in Special EducationProceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2851581.2892375(1533-1539)Online publication date: 7-May-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2851581.2892375

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