The Autism and Learning Difficulties Group are finalising the details of the ‘tic-tac’ tool which will be published in the weeks ahead and which has been designed to enable people with autism and/or learning difficulties to understand and manage the concept of time more easily in situations where they have to wait, to indicate available leisure time, to indicate the time which we have to carry out a task, in situations which can produce sensorial overload and in other situations which are thought to be useful.
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Tic-Tac: watches for people with autism
The Autism and Learning Difficulties Group are finalising the details of the ‘tic-tac’ tool which will be published in the weeks ahead and which has been designed to enable people with autism and/or learning difficulties to understand and manage the concept of time more easily in situations where they have to wait, to indicate available leisure time, to indicate the time which we have to carry out a task, in situations which can produce sensorial overload and in other situations which are thought to be useful.
Robots for social inclusion
The European project IROMEC (IST-FP6-045356) is intended to prevent isolation and dependence of children with disabilities and help them to develop their potential and new skills by means of an environment focussed on play that is backed up by robots that assume the role of social mediators and that can be adapted to the individual characteristics of each user. More information: http://www.iromec.org/
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