Autism Children's App using PECS

TL;DR

This paper presents an Android app incorporating PECS to improve communication for autistic children, demonstrating positive impacts on their ability to communicate and adapt to daily life.

Contribution

The study designs and evaluates a cost-effective Android app integrating PECS, showing its effectiveness in enhancing communication among non-verbal autistic children.

Findings

PECS integration improved communication skills in autistic children

The app supported children in adapting to normal life

Encouraging results in communication and social interaction

Abstract

Since autistic children suffers from learning disabilities and communication barriers, this research aim to design, develop and evaluate an Android based mobile application (app) providing better learning environment with inclusion of graphical representation in a cost effective manner. This research evaluate various supporting technologies and finds Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) to be better choice for integrating with the app. Evaluation results reveal that the inclusion of PECS helped the children suffering from Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to better communicate with others. The study included autistic children who do not speak, who are unintelligible and who are minimally effective communicators with their present communication system. The evolution results showed encouraging impacts of the Autism App in supporting autistic children to adapt to normal life and improve the standard of their life.