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A brief review: assistive technology and autism, a proposal for virtual tools for improved communication and emotional recognition
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Abstract
Autism is a condition that affects over one percent of the population, and is a condition that has varying degrees of severity. There currently exist various therapies to help people with autism communicate effectively. As a result some researchers and schools have expanded this provision by creating virtual tools to assist the communication process and allow a greater level of independence and generalization. Therefore, this brief paper aims to present a review of literature surrounding assistive technology, augmentative and alternative communication and autism, and
how these fields of knowledge can be better understood to help develop virtual tools – more specifically a virtual world