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Using Virtual Environments for Teaching Social Understanding to 6 Adolescents with Autistic Spectrum Disorders
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Mitchell, Peter; Parsons, Sarah; Leonard, Anne – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2007
Six teenagers with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASDs) experienced a Virtual Environment (VE) of a cafe. They also watched three sets of videos of real cafe and buses and judged where they would sit and explained why. Half of the participants received their VE experience between the first and second sets of videos, and half experienced it between…
Descriptors: Computer Simulation, Autism, Adolescents, Computer Assisted Instruction