WING: Visual Support Device For Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder

Abstract

Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may have difficulties performing daily activities in their daily lives. Within this context, techniques are developed to awaken the skills necessary to carry out such activities. In this sense, the current project presents an embedded system composed of a mobile application and an interactive panel, which 1. The project’s development was based on applying the visual cues technique, an interactive panel with light-emitting diodes (LEDs), with images of a certain task in order, serving as an interactive tutorial. In addition to the panel, a mobile application was developed that helps memorize and assimilate the tasks to be performed. The interactive panel, through button clicks, signals errors and successes during each step of the proposed activity and sends the data to a cloud storage system. The mobile application works as a memorization activity, in which the user must select the images in the correct order. In the end, a report tab is filled in by the child’s guardian and sent to the professional, informing the child’s behavior during the activity.