Occupational Therapy’s Role in the Treatment of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Gee, Bryan M; Nwora, Amy; Peterson, Theodore W.

doi:10.5772/intechopen.78696

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“… 18 These include, speech therapy, using Picture Exchange Communication System 19 and a communication app, Avaz , to address specific speech-related challenges. 12 occupational therapy to promote functional independence 20 and address sensory issues. 21 physiotherapy to manage difficulties in motor movements, 22 low muscle tone, and developmental coordination disorder, 12 and to realize improvements in communication skills often seen with improvements in motor control.…”

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Establishing a novel partnership model to deploy health services for children with autism in a low-resource setting – experience from Sri Lanka

Sivayokan

Kumanan

et al. 2023

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia

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Establishing a novel partnership model to deploy health services for children with autism in a low-resource setting – experience from Sri Lanka

Sivayokan

Kumanan

et al. 2023

The Lancet Regional Health - Southeast Asia

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“…Occupational therapy (OT) is referred to as the art and science of helping people do day-to-day activities. It is important and meaningful to their health and well-being through engagement in valued occupations [3]. These traditional methods have a certain level of effectiveness with positive results varying from person to person.…”

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Serious Game for VR Road Crossing in Special Needs Education

Tan

Huang

et al. 2022

Electronics

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Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability that can impair communication, social skills, living skills, and learning capabilities. Learning approaches usually differ between mainstream schools and special needs schools, to cater for the different learning processes of children with ASD. Besides the traditional classroom-based education, alternative technology and methods are explored for special needs education. One method is to train children with ASD using Virtual Reality (VR) technologies. Many prior works show the effectiveness of VR-based learning with varying degrees of success. Some children with ASD may face challenges to gain independent living skills. Their parents or guardians have to expend a significant amount of effort in taking care of children with ASD. It will be very helpful if they can have a learning opportunity to gain such living skills. In this research, we develop a VR serious game to train children with ASD one of the basic living skills for road crossing safely. The VR serious game operates on multiple types of platforms, with various user interaction inputs including the Microsoft Kinect sensor, keyboard, mouse, and touch screen. The game design and methodology will be described in this paper. Experiments have been conducted to evaluate the learning effectiveness of the road crossing game, with very positive results achieved in the quiz and survey questionnaire after the gameplay.

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Occupational Therapy’s Role in the Treatment of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders

Cited by 2 publications

References 75 publications

Establishing a novel partnership model to deploy health services for children with autism in a low-resource setting – experience from Sri Lanka

Establishing a novel partnership model to deploy health services for children with autism in a low-resource setting – experience from Sri Lanka

Serious Game for VR Road Crossing in Special Needs Education

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