NDLI: Running head: Virtual Peer Technology for Children with Autism Using Virtual Peer Technology as an Intervention for Children with Autism

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Running head: Virtual Peer Technology for Children with Autism Using Virtual Peer Technology as an Intervention for Children with Autism

Content Provider	Semantic Scholar
Author	Cassell, Justine
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	In this chapter we discuss the motivation, design and implementation of PAT (Play and Tell), an authorable virtual peer for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Based on research on the triad of impairments that characterize ASD, and how these impairments may be linked to deficits in theory of mind, we lay out a set of key features that we believe to be important – and as yet undervalued -in technological interventions for children with autism: (1) a peer context, rather than a virtual parent or teacher, so that children can practice peer social interaction skills, (2) a personally-meaningful storytelling task for practicing imagination and language, (3) a system that incorporates not just interaction with the technology, but also a control and author mode, to allow the child to build appropriate social skills from the ground up. These features are instantiated in an authorable, life-size, full-body virtual peer that tells collaborative stories and thereby gives children with ASD a space to play with social interaction, communication and imaginative play behaviors. Pilot studies demonstrate that for at least some children with ASD and related diagnoses, the PAT system is intuitive, motivating, and capable of engaging children in the kind of tight reciprocal social interaction that is otherwise so difficult for them, and that is the basis for both play and learning among children.
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Language	English
Access Restriction	Open
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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