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Application of IoT in Autism
This chapter begins with an outline of children with special needs and an initial discourse of how modern information technology with smart environment creates a funnel
for providing education and for enhancing the quality of life of children with autism.
More detailed sections follow and describe how particular IoT applications and devices
make it possible for autistic children to learn in a regular manner together with their
normal, healthy companions’ environment. It concentrates especially on gadgets and
applications that specifically provide an interface between autistic children and the technical methodologies. Emphasis is additionally put on recent improvements, with past
technologies serving as cases of the many effective techniques for adapting to an autistic
child through technology.
14.1.1 Children with Special Needs
Children with autism have some inabilities that make learning or performing different day-to-day activities difficult for them. They may require additional help because
of their medical, emotional, or learning issues. As discussed by Jamdeaf (2015), children with special needs mainly have mental disorder, which causes them to grow more
slowly than other normal children. They may have to go for medical treatment or mental therapy to keep them in a normal condition, whereas the normal children do not
ordinarily require or just need occasionally. We may have the capacity to recognize a
child with special needs; however, we presumably cannot recognize every one of them.
Nemours (2016) states that a child could have an issue that isn’t noticeable unless you
know well that individually. When provided with right instruction and framework, an
autistic child individually can make a great success to interact with the normal life. In
any case, to oversee such a child, we have to first comprehend what autism spectrum
disorders (ASDs) or autism means.
14.1.1.1 What Is ASD?
ASDs are the most widespread neurodevelopmental disorders. Diagnosing children with
ASD has become a challenging task for many therapists all over the world. It is a cluster of
developmental disorders consisting of different categories such as pervasive developmental disorder, classic autism, and Asperger’s syndrome. The intensity of symptoms in ASD
ranges from moderate to severe, depending on the behavioral part of the child. Research
on the activities of autistic children observed that their less effective involvement in social
interaction and imagination, language and communication skill, imagining things and
stereotype behavior became more difficult to make them what they did not understand.
There are so many symptoms of this pervasive disorder and the ASD covers all the impairments mentioned above.
Researchers have observed that normally autism appears during the initial three years
of life of a child and it shows a complex formative inability. It is identified when a child’s
failure to convey and associate with others is far from an individual interaction. It is normally a brain disorder that affects a child’s capability to convey, establish relationships
with environments, and counter perfectly to the society. Notbohm (2005) suggested that
individuals with autism are not physically disabled and they “look” simply like anyone
without disability. A recent study (Mighty 2016) has shown that an autistic child may have
a number of behaviors at similar stages. They can be mildly or severely autistic in different
ways. Such an individual is therefore said to exhibit behaviors of someone on the range of
autistic spectrum and has ASDs.
Application of IoT in Autism
This chapter begins with an outline of children with special needs and an initial discourse of how modern information technology with smart environment creates a funnel
for providing education and for enhancing the quality of life of children with autism.
More detailed sections follow and describe how particular IoT applications and devices
make it possible for autistic children to learn in a regular manner together with their
normal, healthy companions’ environment. It concentrates especially on gadgets and
applications that specifically provide an interface between autistic children and the technical methodologies. Emphasis is additionally put on recent improvements, with past
technologies serving as cases of the many effective techniques for adapting to an autistic
child through technology.
14.1.1 Children with Special Needs
Children with autism have some inabilities that make learning or performing different day-to-day activities difficult for them. They may require additional help because
of their medical, emotional, or learning issues. As discussed by Jamdeaf (2015), children with special needs mainly have mental disorder, which causes them to grow more
slowly than other normal children. They may have to go for medical treatment or mental therapy to keep them in a normal condition, whereas the normal children do not
ordinarily require or just need occasionally. We may have the capacity to recognize a
child with special needs; however, we presumably cannot recognize every one of them.
Nemours (2016) states that a child could have an issue that isn’t noticeable unless you
know well that individually. When provided with right instruction and framework, an
autistic child individually can make a great success to interact with the normal life. In
any case, to oversee such a child, we have to first comprehend what autism spectrum
disorders (ASDs) or autism means.
14.1.1.1 What Is ASD?
ASDs are the most widespread neurodevelopmental disorders. Diagnosing children with
ASD has become a challenging task for many therapists all over the world. It is a cluster of
developmental disorders consisting of different categories such as pervasive developmental disorder, classic autism, and Asperger’s syndrome. The intensity of symptoms in ASD
ranges from moderate to severe, depending on the behavioral part of the child. Research
on the activities of autistic children observed that their less effective involvement in social
interaction and imagination, language and communication skill, imagining things and
stereotype behavior became more difficult to make them what they did not understand.
There are so many symptoms of this pervasive disorder and the ASD covers all the impairments mentioned above.
Researchers have observed that normally autism appears during the initial three years
of life of a child and it shows a complex formative inability. It is identified when a child’s
failure to convey and associate with others is far from an individual interaction. It is normally a brain disorder that affects a child’s capability to convey, establish relationships
with environments, and counter perfectly to the society. Notbohm (2005) suggested that
individuals with autism are not physically disabled and they “look” simply like anyone
without disability. A recent study (Mighty 2016) has shown that an autistic child may have
a number of behaviors at similar stages. They can be mildly or severely autistic in different
ways. Such an individual is therefore said to exhibit behaviors of someone on the range of
autistic spectrum and has ASDs.