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20.04.2022
What the digital technology and, particularly the Augmented Reality, can contribute to the development of these skills?
The main objective of ARBIT project is to reduce disparities in accessing and engaging with formal and non-formal education of students with autism and learning difficulties, in order to promote their social inclusion.
To reach that objective ARBIT´s project propose to use Augmented Reality technology to help young children with autism and intellectual disabilities, in acquiring and developing key competencies, including basic skills, as body knowledge, joint attention and imitation.
Below we offer you a brief explanation of the benefits of using augmented reality technology for the development of these skills.
What does the use of digital technology bring to people with Autism and intellectual disability?
Technology mainly provides visual information, allows filter non-relevant information, can be highly personalised, predictable and it does not require communication and social interaction that are so complex to most of the people with Autism and intellectual disability.
What Augmented Reality can contribute to the development of imitation, joint attention and body knowledge in people with Autism and intellectual disability?
Augmented Reality allows the users to look at themselves reflected on a screen or on a white and smooth surface and, while they are interacting with virtual elements that appear in the scene.
This feature gives an exceptional opportunity to work any skill that involves the body. Activities elaborated specifically for this kind of technology and based on empirical evidence from psychology and pedagogy could help to improve imitation, joint attention and body knowledge, contributing to the integral development of the person.