Implementing a Serious Game to Improve Communication and Social Skills for Children with Autism

摘要

In this research, we have developed a serious game app to help children with autism to overcome their social and communication problems. This game is implemented based on PECS system. The developed game is an educational game with educational target by containing educational roles based on PECS and other attractive factors. The educational roles are given in a form of visual scanning, matching, ability to distinguish, build a complete sentence based on functional communication skills, ask and comments. The preliminary experiment results revealed a positive impact in promoting children with autism motor skills and their interactive functionality.