Educational Apps for Teaching Children With Autism
Many teachers, counselors, and parents of children with autism spectrum disorder, are using educational apps to help kids organize their days, learn a variety of skills, and improve overall communication. After the success of educational apps like "Make Sentences" and "Just Match" that can run on iPads and tabs, researchers have begun to explore ways for harnessing these common devices to teach adaptive skills to autistic children. It's the interactive nature of these apps that have made them hugely popular with the kids. The educational apps help autistic children can take advantage of the strong visual-processing skills. The apps tap their interest and use the same as a teaching mechanism. While the "Make Sentences" and "Just Match" autism education apps have paved the way for scientists to research what more can be taught with them, other companies have begun to harness their utilities. The capabilities of these new-age digital devices l...