Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Robots support autistic students in learning social skills

 

Robots help students with autism learn social skills
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Ten students with autism recently used robots to help learn some social and behavioral skills during a two-week Camp BLAST -- Behavior, Language, and Sensory/Social Transition. Juliet White, student services officer for the Beaufort County School District in South Carolina, said the district put the program on hold at the beginning of the pandemic, but it is growing this fall when each school is slated to have one of two models of the robots.
Full Story: The Island Packet (Hilton Head Island, S.C.) (6/27)  

 SEE source:  https://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/education/article262901353.html