A Multimedia Distance Language Assessment System for Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A System Design

This study intends to design a distance assessment system for preschool kids with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This system is an improvement of the past system that was used in previous research. For the demand of future research and the increasing size of the sample size, the technical challenges, occurred in the past system that associated with internet problems, have to be solved. The limitation of the resources such as professionals in special education (teachers), time, space, and cost will be considered in designing this system. Moreover, the need of distance assessment for prescreening children with ASD also related to the difficulties for ASD kids to get used to a new environment such as early invention center, school, and hospital. This study will focus on overcoming the technical challenges associated with the internet-based transmission to provide the option of taking tests remotely and to broaden the application of the assessment. Therefore, this paper has designed a distance system that use cloud server system to solve the limitation of server storage and slow Internet connection. Webcam function also is included to direct and instruct the students in conducting the assessment and teacher can record whole assessment progress to collect the data.