Share Paper: Robotic Technology as a tool for Improving Mathematical Skills and Learner Functions among students with Autism

  1. Orly Hebel, Levinsky College of Education, Israel
  2. Anat Bodinuk Butz, Levinsky College of Education, Israel

Abstract: Recent studies have demonstrated the use of technology, to empower people with special needs to be more independent and improve their equity and full participation in life. In this study, an intervention program combined robotic technology to improve autistic students' functioning in applied mathematics. Twenty-four students in a special education trainning program and 22 adolescent subjects diagnosed with autism (mean=16) attending a special education school participated in the study. Each intervention program included seven individual sessions, in which subjects experienced the use of integrated robotic technology with tailored mathematics instruction. Mixed methodology has been used in this study. The quantitative ...