Android Application to Empower the Autistic Children through E-Learning

Abstract

Social interaction is the most important thing for a person who lives in the society. These interactions form the basis for social structure and therefore are a key object of basic social inquiry and analysis. But, there are some people who lack the confidence to interact with the society. Social isolation can be an issue for anyone despite their age. Especially the children with Autism Spectrum Disorder are categorized under people who lack social interaction. Those children have to be addressed with proper caring and love since they are very fragile and important.

According to the researchers conducted, most of them are having problems with understanding interrogative terminology like ‘Who’, ‘What’ and ‘Where’. Most of the time autistic children behave comfortable with the things that they feel as friends of them. So the children who suffer autism use mobile devices in a frequent manner. Mobile Apps play a major role in helping children to learn things because of their user friendliness, and the interactivity. As a result of this, the speech language pathologists are applying that technique in training the children with that behavior.

As the outcome of the background study of the domain, visually and auditory aided android application is provided for the autistic children for learning interrogative pronouns. So, it will be helpful in improving their quality of life. This document discusses about the motivation, system architecture and the system design from the diagrams provided with the document. This is an innovative system which supports and provides guidance to an autistic child to get established in the real world. Through this application, a child with autism can be assisted with a proper guidance by enhancing the capability of learning skills.

For the analysis of the learning behavior of the children who use the android application in their training process, a website is developed to sync with the app and analyze data which was stored in the app. Through this website parents and speech language pathologists are well aware of the learning improvements of their children. Evaluation of the system as well as monitoring the learning skills of the children was done throughout the lifecycle of the project and it was identified that the difficulties in differentiating interrogative pronouns has been overcome with the help of the android application. Therefore the system is recognized as a successful system to help children who are diagnosed as autistic children.