Use of Mobile Social Story Maps in the Development of Cognitive and Social Skills of Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

The purpose of the study was to compare the effectiveness and efficiency of animated and non-animated mobile social story maps using the mobile learning environment that the authors developed. An application using the story map method based on social stories was developed. Mobile social story map was presented with animated and non-animated narrative and the effectiveness and efficiencies of the two methods on both listening comprehension and social communication skills were compared using an alternating treatments design. The participants of the study consisted of three children aged between 6 and 7 years with an ASD diagnosis. Research findings showed that mobile social story maps contribute to the development of social communication skills and listening comprehension skills of participants with an ASD. The results indicated that two methods were equally effective in improving social communication skills, but in improving listening comprehension skills, animated supported stories were more effective for one of the three participants. Also, animated narrative-supported mobile social story maps were more efficient for two participants.

Social Story untuk Menurunkan Perilaku Agresif Anak dengan Retardasi Mental

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui efektivitas social story untuk mengurangi perilaku agresif pada anak dengan retardasi mental. Jenis penelitian yang digunakan adalah penelitian eksperimen yang berbentuk single subject research dengan desain grafik A-B-A’. Subjek dalam penelitian ini adalah seorang anak dengan retardasi mental ringan (WISC, IQ: 69), berjenis kelamin perempuan di sebuah Sekolah Dasar. Subjek memiliki kecenderungan perilaku agresif,. Subjek kesulitan untuk memulai berinteraksi dengan orang lain dengan guru maupun teman, subjek sering menendang, memukul, dan menggigit orang lain pada saat subjek berinteraksi dengan orang lain. Data diukur menggunakan frekuensi untuk melihat berapa kali subjek melakukan tindakan memukul, menendang, dan menggigit orang lain. Metode pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi langsung. Secara kuantitatif, hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa intervensi yang dilakukan mampu menurunkan perilaku memukul, menendang, menggigit. Setelah intervensi, subjek menunjukkan perubahan yang positif dalam perilakunya. Dengan kata lain, social story mampu menurunkan perilaku agresif anak dengan retardasi mental.

Analisis Penatalaksanaan Interaksi Sosial pada Anak Autis dengan Menggunakan Metode Social Story di Klinik Shally Autis Center Palembang Tahun 2020

Autism is a condition caused by internal disorders. A development characterized by abnormalities in social interactions, communication and very rigid behavior and repetition of behavior, while social interactions are needed in the daily life of children with autism in order to live like everyone else. The purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between eye contact, understanding, emotions, and speech on the social interactions of children with autism. This research is an analytic survey with a Cross sectional design. The population in this study were all 60 patients diagnosed with autism at the Shally Autis Center palembang. the sample in this study was the total of population, namely 60 children. The results of the study found that there was a relationship between eye contact, understanding, emotions, and speech with the social interaction of children with autism at the Shally Autis Center Palembang clinic in 2020. At the end of the study it is suggested that therapists in increasing social interaction of children with autism should pay attention to aye contact, understanding, emotion, and speech to be promoted for better development.

SOCIAL STORY TELLING AND CRITICAL REFLECTIONS ON DIFFERENCE

This exposition investigates novel practices for showing social morals through narrating. Drawing from my encounters showing a high level undergrad Narrative Ethics workshop, I clarify how my understudies reacted to a narrating unit through which they inspected their qualities and narrating morals. I entwine perceptions from my educating with experiences assembled from my understudies' in-class conversations and composed reflections to show the instructive points, results, and difficulties experienced while drawing in this material. I center especially around submitting thoughts for urging understudies to (a) embrace cutoff points to their comprehending of others and (b) perceive how tuning in for, and communicating, contrast assumes a basic part in their own, social, and moral development.

Electroencephalographic Correlate of Mexican Spanish Emotional Speech Processing in Autism Spectrum Disorder: To a Social Story and Robot-Based Intervention

Socio-emotional impairments are key symptoms of Autism Spectrum Disorders. This work proposes to analyze the neuronal activity related to the discrimination of emotional prosodies in autistic children (aged 9 to 11-year-old) as follows. Firstly, a database for single words uttered in Mexican Spanish by males, females, and children will be created. Then, optimal acoustic features for emotion characterization will be extracted, followed of a cubic kernel function Support Vector Machine (SVM) in order to validate the speech corpus. As a result, human-specific acoustic properties of emotional voice signals will be identified. Secondly, those identified acoustic properties will be modified to synthesize the recorded human emotional voices. Thirdly, both human and synthesized utterances will be used to study the electroencephalographic correlate of affective prosody processing in typically developed and autistic children. Finally, and on the basis of the outcomes, synthesized voice-enhanced environments will be created to develop an intervention based on social-robot and Social StoryTM for autistic children to improve affective prosodies discrimination. This protocol has been registered at BioMed Central under the following number: ISRCTN18117434.