Increasing Speech Ability of the Autistic Children by an Interactive Computer Game

Autism is one of the most common development disorders in the world, which affects about one in every 150 kids. It is a lifelong disability with no known cure at this time. It affects the way a person communicates and relates to people around him. They face problem to communicate with other people. Speech disorder is one of the most common complexities of autistic children. Most of the children are unable to speak like normal children. They speak repeated, meaningless word, which is very harmful for their communication skills. Now a day’s computer plays an important role for teaching. So we proposed a method which increases the speech ability of autistic children by an interactive computer game. Our game helps autistic children to improve his verbal communication ability. As children likes to play computer games, so our game will be the perfect way to teach new words to autistic children or increase their fluency of known words. We provide a module with that helps children to also learn mathematics. Their progress can be evaluated through our game

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