Internet-of-Things Devices in Support of the Development of Echoic Skills among Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

ABSTRACT: A significant therapeutic challenge for people with disabilities is the development of verbal and echoic skills. Digital voice assistants (DVAs), such as Amazon's Alexa, provide networked intelligence to billions of Internet-of-Things devices and have the potential to offer opportunities to people, such as those diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), to advance these necessary skills. Voice interfaces can enable children with ASD to practice such skills at home; however, it remains unclear whether DVAs can be as proficient as therapists in recognizing utterances by a developing speaker. We developed an Alexa-based skill called ASPECT to measure how well the DVA identified verbalization by autistic children. The participants, nine children diagnosed with ASD, each participated in 30

SUBMITTER: Rechowicz KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8272129 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature