AEN Information Sheet Fourteen: ICT and ASD

Why ICT?

• Visual learners
• Provides clear structure
• Respond to cause and effect
• Predictable routines
• Supports planning
• Immediate feedback/reinforcement
• Play activity and recreation
• Motivating to support curriculum
• Non-intrusive
• Reduces social expectation
• Product raised self-esteem
• Supports organisation
• Supports turn-taking
• Useful as motivator for first … Then
• Develops independent work

What?

• Digital/video cameras
• Tape recorders
• Scanner
• Word processor
• Dana, Alphasmart
• Electronic organisers
• Palm tops
• Computers
• Dictaphones
• Touch monitors

Software

• Touch Typing
• Writing Symbols (Widget)
• Cause and Effect Programmes
• Boardmaker
• Clicker
• Mind Reading
• Flast!  Pro 2
• Smart Alex
• Picture Sentence Key

Books and Articles

• Making it a Success - Sue Larkey. Jessica Kingsley, 2005
• Guidelines for working the Pupils with ASD in Key Stages 3 and 4 - National Autistic Society
• Autism and ICT - A Guide for teachers and Parents, Colin Hardy, Jan Ogden, et al David Fulton

Websites/Useful Links

www.icteachers.co.uk/teachers/links/tsen.htm

www.jkp.com/mindreading

www.autism.org.uk

www.compic.com

www.mayer-johnson.com

www.setbc.org/res/equip/boardmaker/files.html

www.widget.com

groups.yahoo.com/group/Autism-Software

www.inclusive.co.uk/learning-difficulties/infosite/autism/shtml

www.nas.org.uk

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