教育电子书在发育障碍儿童和正常儿童学习中的作用（英文）

Vol.:(0123456789)J. Comput. Educ. (2019) 6(1):117–141https://doi.org/10.1007/s40692-018-0126-91 3Educational e‑book for children with and without developmental disordersNirvana Pistoljevic1 · Vedad Hulusic2 Received: 18 April 2018 / Revised: 28 June 2018 / Accepted: 2 November 2018 / Published online: 17 November 2018 © The Author(s) 2018Abstract In the last decade, Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) prevalence rate has significantly increased, which consequently led to the expansion of research and expenditure in the field, predominantly focusing on searching for the cause. In a typical classroom scenario, working with children with ASD very often requires 1:1 teacher to child ratio, which makes it very expensive and difficult to implement. Serious games have been utilised as a medium for teaching various developmental skills, such as social interaction, speech, motor skills development, emotion recogni-tion, and other basic concepts. Designing serious games for ASD population differs from other games and even other serious games significantly. It requires a holistic approach with extensive knowledge and expertise from fields other than computer science, such as psychology, sociology and cognitive science. However, once har-nessed correctly, such games can be used by children with ASD on their own time, with or without supervision and they can be educational. In addition, they can adjust the appropriate pace while at the same time providing feedback in form of reinforce-ment and correction. Applying the rules of science of learning and teaching, one can design games that are educational for all types of learners, including children with ASD. In this paper, two independent user studies have been conducted, dem-onstrating how serious gaming and e-learning principles can be harnessed in order to intervene, develop or strengthen pivotal developmental skills, like learning novel vocabulary, counting, identifying numbers and colours, and responding to inference questions. We have tested the educational e-book with children diagnosed with ASD * Vedad Hulusic vhulusic@bournemouth.ac.uk Nirvana Pistoljevic np2127@tc.columbia.ed1 Teachers College, Columbia University, 525 West 120th St., New York, NY 10027, USA2 Department of Creative Technology, Faculty of Science and Technology, Bournemouth University, Poole House, Talbot Campus, Poole, Dorset BH12 5BB, UK118 J. Comput. Educ. (2019) 6(1):117–1411 3and with typically developing children to assess skill acquisition in native language for children with ASD and in English, a foreign language, for typically developing children to demonstrate the educational aspect of the game for all types of learners. We showed that the same e-book in two languages can be used for teaching different types of learners through a fun and engaging medium.Keywords Developmental disorder · Autism · Education · E-book · ChildrenIntroductionAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects three core areas