Study and Development of Schedule Application for Autistic Children

Abstract

We studied and developed a new schedule application, "Smiley", for autistic children. We aimed to give the user an opportunity to feel a sense of accomplishment and a motive to try something by him/herself by using this application. We cooperated with special support education schools to correct data and bugs, and to meet the demands of users. In this study, we discuss autism and education and clarify the theory we used to develop the application. Then we explain the usage and functions of the application. In the latter half of this paper, we show the data of the hearing investigation we made at a special support education school in Aichi, Japan.