Towards an Interactive System Eliciting Narrative Comprehension in Children with Autism: A Longitudinal Study

The focus of this work is to find ways of enhancing the ability of individual children with autism to deal with narrative. In particular to further understand how to construct computer software that adapts to get the best out of a child in order to directly effect improvement in narrative comprehension or identify aspects of narrative where therapeutic intervention could be applied.

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