Construction of an information sharing system aiming at comfortable social life of autistic spectrum disabled children and their families

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K12730
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Childhood science (childhood environment science)
• Research Institution: Kawasaki University of Medical Welfare
• Principal Investigator: MORITO MASAKO 川崎医療福祉大学, 医療福祉学部, 講師 (50389029)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 難波 知子 川崎医療福祉大学, 医療技術学部, 准教授 (30441489) ; 武井 祐子 川崎医療福祉大学, 医療福祉学部, 教授 (10319999) ; 三上 史哲 川崎医療福祉大学, 医療福祉マネジメント学部, 講師 (80550392) ; 宮崎 仁 川崎医療福祉大学, 医療技術学部, 講師 (20550396) ; 小田桐 早苗 川崎医療福祉大学, 医療福祉学部, 講師 (10461245) ; 岩藤 百香 川崎医療福祉大学, 医療福祉マネジメント学部, 講師 (80612986)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 自閉症スペクトラム児 / 感覚特性 / 家族支援 / 情報共有 / 社会生活 / 支援アプリケーション

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we developed an information sharing system among people in close contact with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), who live in communities with their families, just as children with normal development do. Having categorized the sensory characteristics of ASD children, which are very hard to discern from their appearances and countenances, our team of specialists each from different fields of studies contrived a supportive application software, taking best advantage of the advent of iPads. The system we devised has the capabilities to record the likes and dislikes of the children and indicate how to deal with them in accordance with the sensory characteristics. The system also has the search function, printout function, and save-as-PDF function that are not possible with paper support books, bringing at the same time in a novel awareness not only of the difficulties but also of the strengths of ASD children.

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