The Main Objectives are:
Educate parents on the use of visual stories to improve children’s social skills
Reduce the negative impact of the diagnosis on the family
Give the ability to parents and children to be active citizens in their local communities
Provide parents strategies and resources for creating a tailored treatment according to the child’s individual needs
Provide a platform for creating in a semi-automatic way visual stories for social skills
Build a Support Network
Main Outcomes of the project
PASS4Autism’s outcomes include behavior guidelines for parents, a user-friendly Visual Stories app, a multimedia story repository, a pilot test, and a field study to evaluate impact, aiming to provide effective support for Autism Spectrum Disorder.
- To set of guidelines for parents on how to deal with behaviouristic issues that a child with autism might have
- The development of an App for Visual Stories creation
- To build an appropriate number of predefined visual stories and make a multimedia repository
- The implementation of a pilot for testing the application
- The elaboration of a field study to evaluate the impact of the application