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Tablet-Based Activity Schedule in Mainstream Environment for Children with Autism and Children with ID

Tablet-Based Activity Schedule in Mainstream Environment for Children with Autism and Children... Tablet-Based Activity Schedule in Mainstream Environment for Children with Autism and Children with ID CHARLES FAGE, University of Bordeaux, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest ´ LEONARD POMMEREAU, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest CHARLES CONSEL, Bordeaux INP, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest EMILIE BALLAND, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest ´ ` ´ HELENE SAUZEON, University of Bordeaux, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Including children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in mainstream environments creates a need for new interventions whose efficacy must be assessed in situ. This article presents a tablet-based application for activity schedules that has been designed following a participatory design approach involving mainstream teachers, special education teachers, and school aides. This application addresses two domains of activities: classroom routines and verbal communications. We assessed the efficiency of our application with two overlapping user studies in mainstream inclusion, sharing a group of children with ASD. The first experiment involved 10 children with ASD, where five children were equipped with our tabled-based application and five were not equipped. We show that (1) the use of the application is rapidly self-initiated (after 2 months for almost all the participants) and (2) the tabletsupported routines are better performed after 3 months of intervention. The second experiment involved 10 children equipped with http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) Association for Computing Machinery

Tablet-Based Activity Schedule in Mainstream Environment for Children with Autism and Children with ID

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Tablet-Based Activity Schedule in Mainstream Environment for Children with Autism and Children with ID CHARLES FAGE, University of Bordeaux, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest ´ LEONARD POMMEREAU, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest CHARLES CONSEL, Bordeaux INP, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest EMILIE BALLAND, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest ´ ` ´ HELENE SAUZEON, University of Bordeaux, Inria Bordeaux Sud-Ouest Including children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD) in mainstream environments creates a need for new interventions whose efficacy must be assessed in situ. This article presents a tablet-based application for activity schedules that has been designed following a participatory design approach involving mainstream teachers, special education teachers, and school aides. This application addresses two domains of activities: classroom routines and verbal communications. We assessed the efficiency of our application with two overlapping user studies in mainstream inclusion, sharing a group of children with ASD. The first experiment involved 10 children with ASD, where five children were equipped with our tabled-based application and five were not equipped. We show that (1) the use of the application is rapidly self-initiated (after 2 months for almost all the participants) and (2) the tabletsupported routines are better performed after 3 months of intervention. The second experiment involved 10 children equipped with

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ACM Transactions on Accessible Computing (TACCESS) – Association for Computing Machinery

Published: May 2, 2016

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