AppPECS: Mobile Application for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Abstract

The study of treatments for children with autism and interventions through educational games is growing because researchers have seen an acceptance by users with autism spectrum disorder in this type of applications. Allowing this type of users to acquire and develop new skills such as digital, the development of writing through the use of the keyboard, as a means of communication and a mechanism of reinforcement in sociable aspects. Taking into account the benefits of using games through mobile applications in the treatment of targeted therapies in children with autism spectrum disorder, a mobile application has been developed to obtain an experience that interactively stimulates children for the purpose of Reinforce areas of learning development, such as repetition of activities (socialization), concentration, reinforcement of short-term memory, order and development of kinesthetic skills through the use of digitization. This project was applied in the Unidad de Servicios de Apoyo a la Escuela Regular No. 21 (USAER) instance of Special Education, dependent on the Secretaría de Educación Pública de Hidalgo.