Project information
- Category: Serious Games
- SGAT Staff: Dr Vedad Hulusic
- Project date: 01 March, 2020
- Project URL: https://lefca.net/ and http://edusbih.org/book/
Educational serious games for children with autism
In this project, a series of minigames and an e-book has been designed and developed for teaching children with autism basic skills and concepts. The games are aimed at developing matching, pointing out (based on visual and auditory stimuli), and labelling skills, which are considered to be primary skills needed for learning. The e-book focused on teaching children novel vocabulary, counting, identifying numbers and colours, and responding to inference questions. The serious games and the e-book were evaluated and the results showed that the created software in the native language is completely clear and user-friendly for children with ASD and typically developing children, and that these were systematically and developmentally appropriately sequenced for learning. Additionally, it was found that children were able to generalise learned skills, through a transfer to a new medium or environment without any needed training (i.e.computer).