ICT-Enabled Emotional Learning for Special Needs Education

Abstract

Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) is a neuro-developmental disability. Children with ASD often find it difficult to express and recognize emotions which make it hard for them to interact socially. Conventional emotional learning for children with ASD often uses medicinal means, and behavioural analysis that could be costly and less effective. There is a significant need to develop Infocomm Technology (ICT) based methods for effective emotional learning. We are interested to develop an iPAD-based game approach for children with ASD to learn emotion through interactive gaming. This chapter reports our project on Social Emotional Learning (SEL) for children with ASDs using an iPAD app.