Title :
A Computer Game Based Approach for Increasing Fluency in the Speech of the Autistic Children
Author :
Anwar, Anika ; Rahman, Md Mustafizur ; Ferdous, S.M. ; Anik, Samiul Alam ; Ahmed, Syed Ishtiaque
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Bangladesh Univ. of Eng. & Technol. (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Abstract :
Autism is a complex developmental disability that typically appears during the first three years of life. This is the result of a neurological disorder that affects the functioning of human brain. Children diagnosed with autism often are self-absorbed and seem to exist in a private world where they are unable to successfully communicate and interact with others. Sometimes they have difficulties in developing speaking skills and understanding what others say to them. Lack of fluency in the speech is one of the most frequently found problems with autistic children. The traditional methods for increasing fluency were found to be monotonous and hence, not much successful during our three months of observations over the participants of Autism Welfare Foundation (AWF) at Dhaka. Therefore, we developed an interactive computer game for the autistic children for improving the fluency in their speech. Our game produced encouraging results over a participant during three months of observation. In this paper, we describe our project and the outcomes.
Keywords :
brain; computer games; diseases; medical computing; public administration; speech processing; AWF; Autism Welfare Foundation; Dhaka; autistic children; complex developmental disability; human brain; interactive computer game; neurological disorder; speaking skill; Autism; Computers; Games; Medical treatment; Software; Speech; Vocabulary; Autism; Educational Games; Human Factors; e-Learning;
Conference_Titel :
Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT), 2011 11th IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Athens, GA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-61284-209-7
Electronic_ISBN :
2161-3761
DOI :
10.1109/ICALT.2011.13