Verbal Therapeutic Desktop Application for Autism Spectrum Disordered Children

Among us, we have various types of diseases and disabilities which can be cured and cannot be cured by treatments. Some might not be only cured by bio-medicals, but with some psychological perspectives. Autism Spectrum Disorder(ASD) is a neurological and developmental disorder which generally starts appear symptoms in the age of two years and lasts throughout the lifetime. The term ‘Spectrum’ refers because it shows a wide variation in the type and severity of symptoms.

Medical Research Council Social Psychiatry Unit at the Institute of Psychiatry in London demonstrated the clustering of social and communication impairments with lack of pretend play (replaced by repetitive behaviour and interests) has marked autism as a syndrome.

Nature of disabilities of ASD children has described as a triad of Impairments;

1.     Impairment of social interaction

2.     Impairment of verbal and communication

3.     Repetitive behaviour

Each of these impairments should be prescribed at different angles. In the study of this matter we focused on the Impairment of verbal and communication, we found many research papers show that most of the times they have unique abilities and symptoms in linguistic patterns, they speak in an abnormal tone of voice, it is which lead us to re-search their speaking patterns.

With the information we gathered from ASD Therapists, we found that generally, in the age two ASD children show a delay in learning how to speak, repeating the same words or phrases they recently used to listen which someone has just said.

They may respond to a question by asking the same question, they do not understand simple statements or questions. These children have limited ability of successful communication and interaction with others and they struggle with speech and language comprehension, difficulty in communicating needs. So they like to live in their hallucination. They have trouble in moving to different phases in an activity, because of the less comprehension level.

But many children have good memories for information just heard or seen. They have the pictorial in their mind and may develop a strong vocabulary in a particular area of interest very quickly. They are very likely to work with computers and displays.

Making the above fact a plus motivation,

We propose a ‘Verbal Therapeutic Desktop Application for Autism Disordered Children’ to train and enhance their verbal skills and communication skills in an interactive, attractive environment.