Smartphones to facilitate communication and improve social skills of children with severe autism spectrum disorder: Special education teachers as proxies

Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Interaction Design and Children, IDC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 45-48

  De Leo, Gianluca ^a   Leroy, Gondy ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CLAREMONT GRADUATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assisted cognition; Autism; Design with proxies; Health informatics

Indexed keywords

AUTISM; AUTISM SPECTRUM DISORDERS; DESIGNING SOFTWARES; HEALTH INFORMATICS; PARTICIPATORY DESIGN; SMARTPHONES; SOCIAL SKILLS; SPECIAL EDUCATION;

STANDBY POWER SYSTEMS; TEACHING;

DESIGN;

EID: 70450235405     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1463689.1463715     Document Type: Conference Paper

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