Análise de Aplicativos digitais no Treino das Habilidades Comunicativas e Sociais de Crianças com o Transtorno do Espectro Autista

Abstract

Abstract

This study presents an analysis of educational applications for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). The objective was to verify the adequacies of digital applications to the educational needs of training development of communicative and social skills.

The starting point was to analyze three digital applications, ABC autism, TEO autism, PictoTEA, with usability and ease of access requirements, in addition to being free, are available on the Google Play Platform in the Portuguese language and are compatible with the Android operating system. The analysis and discussion was based on a bibliographic review of qualitative study of these digital applications according to the development of the training of communicative and social skills. Therefore, we emphasize the importance of using digital applications as an educational support medium facilitating inclusion and expanding teaching strategies. The use of digital applications serves as visuais support and strategy that can be used to help autistic children improve their skills in information processing, understanding and use of language, and understanding and interaction with their physical and social environment.

With them, the autistic child can learn in his own time and in a pleasurable way, from interactions with the software, sound resource, use of images and animations appropriate to stimuli.

Keywords: Applications, Skills, Development, Autism.