2011 Parsons and Cobb22 Review article State of VR in education and training for autistic individuals Children can learn information from VR and some can transfer this knowledge to the real world, especially when the skills are procedural and rule based 2012 Parsons23 VR to enable the reciprocal interactions and Read more…
A specialist care facility in England is using virtual reality (VR) headsets and data mining to help children with autism to acclimatize to scenarios they are likely to encounter outside of school. The VR scenarios introduce children to situations like visiting a shopping mall or getting on an aircraft without Read more…
Multimedia training works for everyone, but it can be an excellent way to increase self-efficacy by learning some live skills. It is an initial trial, so the sample size is small. Ten ASD adults, seven men and three women, 19 to 42 years of age, participated in the study, which Read more…
Despite the small size and preliminary state, this study builds on top of other programs that have been used to get familiar with uncommon scenarios as well as social skills training. This study focus on VR-based air travel functional communication activity in five children diagnosed with ASD. Using an iPhone Read more…
Technology does not need to be complex to work well. Hugh Murtagh from Coláiste Mhuire in Co Westmeath has designed wristband that will help students with Autism alert their teachers in a subtle manner when they feel they need a break from the class. As simple as a wristband you Read more…
Over a year ago, a group of students from the Kent Career Tech Center build a VR system to help autistic people train and learn on social interaction. They were finalists on the Samsung “Solve for Tomorrow”. That idea has evolved into what has become Autism XR. One of the Read more…