Design of a Digital Comic Creator (It's Me) to Facilitate Social Skills Training for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder: Design Research Approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often face difficulties in social situations and are often lagging in terms of social skills. Many interventions designed for children with ASD emphasize improving social skills. Although many interventions demonstrate that targeted social skills can be improved in clinical settings, developed social skills are not necessarily applied in children's daily lives at school, sometimes because classmates continue to show negative bias toward children with ASD. Children with ASD do not blame the difficult social situations they encounter on their lack of social skills; their main goal is to be accepted by peers.

Objective

This study aims to design a comic creator-It's me-that would create comics to serve as transformational b

SUBMITTER: Terlouw G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7382019 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature