A Preliminary Investigation into Teaching Adolescents with Autism to Use Apps to Solve Problems.

ABSTRACT: Technology offers exciting possibilities for instruction with learners with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but limited research has evaluated the use of web-based applications (apps) as learning tools for this population. We wondered if using apps would function as a precurrent response to solve problems in the form of questions on a worksheet. Participants were two adolescents with ASD, Phoebe and Gavin. We taught them to use map, weather, and clock apps to answer questions about distance, temperature, and time on a worksheet (e.g., "What time is it in Cairo?"). The cities varied to ensure the answers were always unknown. Training occurred for one app at a time in the manner of a multiple baseline design across behaviors. Training steps were progressively introduced to evaluate the compo

SUBMITTER: Frampton SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12283500 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature