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Classroom-based assistive technology: collective use of interactive visual schedules by students with autism

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Classroom-based assistive technology: collective use of interactive visual schedules by students with autism
vSked is an interactive and collaborative assistive technology for students with autism, combining visual schedules, choice boards, and a token-based reward system into an integrated classroom system. In this paper, we present the results of a study of three deployments of vSked over the course of a year in two autism classrooms. The results of our study demonstrate that vSked can promote student independence, reduce the quantity of educatorinitiated prompts, encourage consistency and predictability, reduce the time required to transition from one activity to another. The findings from this study reveal practices surrounding the use of assistive technologies in classrooms and highlight important considerations for both the design and the evaluation of assistive technologies in the future, especially those destined for classroom use. Author Keywords Assistive technology, autism, visual schedules ACM Classification Keywords K.3 Computers and Education; K.3.1 Computers Use in Education; ...
Meg Cramer, Sen H. Hirano, Monica Tentori, Michael
Added 25 Aug 2011
Updated 25 Aug 2011
Type Journal
Year 2011
Where CHI
Authors Meg Cramer, Sen H. Hirano, Monica Tentori, Michael T. Yeganyan, Gillian R. Hayes
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