Early Intervention Tablet-Based Application for Teaching Daily Living Skills to Autistic Children

Sarah Omar, Ah-Choo Koo, Azman Bidin

2024

Abstract

Tablet-based assistive learning applications have the capacity to assist learning, especially for those with disabilities. The study was conducted to explore the effectiveness of tablet-based application in a special education setting with five young autistic children as case studies, with in-depth explorations for each child’s learning experiences. The Autism Aid application was designed using supportive contents from the Malaysian school curriculum, tailored for young children with autism aged 5 to 10 years and supporting students’ learning. The learning lessons focus on self-management skills using cognitive theory of multimedia learning and carefully design based on the video modelling contents, text and images. The study employed a qualitative case study with data gathered from multiple sources. The study has shown that the participants were able to learn from the tablet-based application. The results have shown that multimedia elements, the human-model, and the use of tablet in the classroom affected children’s learning outcomes. Video applications have been beneficial as instructional tools for children with autism, especially in motivating and supporting their learning endeavours. Findings have shown that the video modelling application has played an important role in shaping the learning and observational process empowering children to achieve high levels of performance.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Omar S., Koo A. and Bidin A. (2024). Early Intervention Tablet-Based Application for Teaching Daily Living Skills to Autistic Children. In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Creative Multimedia - Volume 1: ICCM; ISBN 978-989-758-733-7, SciTePress, pages 68-79. DOI: 10.5220/0013341500004557

in Bibtex Style

@conference{iccm24,
author={Sarah Omar and Ah-Choo Koo and Azman Bidin},
title={Early Intervention Tablet-Based Application for Teaching Daily Living Skills to Autistic Children},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Creative Multimedia - Volume 1: ICCM},
year={2024},
pages={68-79},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013341500004557},
isbn={978-989-758-733-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Creative Multimedia - Volume 1: ICCM
TI - Early Intervention Tablet-Based Application for Teaching Daily Living Skills to Autistic Children
SN - 978-989-758-733-7
AU - Omar S.
AU - Koo A.
AU - Bidin A.
PY - 2024
SP - 68
EP - 79
DO - 10.5220/0013341500004557
PB - SciTePress