Personalised avatar on social stories and digital storytelling: Fostering positive behavioural skills for children with autism spectrum disorder

Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) has become more prevalent nowadays. One of the biggest challenges in providing services for ASD kids' learning is by overcoming their behavioural skills. This paper presents a study regarding the use of a mobile application on five children affected with Autism Spectrum Disorder, assisted by a teacher in assessing their classroom behavioural skills. Social Stories and digital storytelling are both utilized in this research to support and assist each child response to the road safety awareness. The study shows that social stories and digital storytelling have the potential to promote positive attribute in children' behaviour, not only in terms of their engagement with the road safety awareness, but their interest in learning the content also increases.