- Children with autism may have an easier time reading facial expressions and navigating social interactions when they use Google Glass paired with a smartphone app, a small experiment suggests.
The experiment included 71 children, ages 6 to 12, who were receiving a standard treatment for autism known as applied behavioral analysis therapy. This type of therapy typically involves using structured exercises like flash cards depicting faces to help kids learn to recognize different emotions. After six weeks of using Superpower Glass in 20-minute sessions four times a week, kids who received this digital support scored better on tests of socialization, communication and behavior than the control group of 31 kids who received only standard care for autism.
Superpower Glass is designed to tackle a common struggle for kids with autism - how to understand social cues and use past experiences to learn how to respond in various situations. “Emojis are much simpler, static stimuli,” Dawson, who wasn’t involved in the study, said by email. “It makes sense that emojis would be easier for a person with autism to understand.”
It doesn't.
This is a waste of money and you're taking advantage of parents who dont know any better.
So the kids in this study did everything they could to escape ABA?
It would be even more helpful to the Autism Community if news orgs like yours could quit with the person first language. The majority of us who are ActuallyAutistic don't care for it. Comes across as ableist. Can you hear me now, ?
Ummmmm
We dont do facial expressions...
Don’t tell BetsyDeVosED she’ll use it against them and as an excuse to take funding from them. evil