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Design of Social Story Teaching Aid for Autistic Children Based on Computational Thinking and Its Case Study

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Computational thinking is an emerging teaching strategy as well as an ability necessary for all people in the future. In this study, social stories are used to teach autistic children social skills. Combining sequential computational thinking as a learning strategy and applying Conductive Copper Foil Tape and Makey Makey, a social story teaching aid is made. With the help of it, children can learn the content from social stories, learn social stories through computational thinking and arrange corresponding sequence structure. Three autistic children from Grade 1 took part in six teaching experiments and were observed their change of social skills. The results showed that scientific teaching aid could improve autistic children's social ability, speaking skills, attention, and learning interests, making them observe the storytelling more carefully and easily, understand the story development, and learn social skills from it. Besides, this teaching aid could improve autistic children's social reciprocity and provide theoretical references for relevant fields.

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        CNIOT '21: Proceedings of the 2021 2nd International Conference on Computing, Networks and Internet of Things
        May 2021
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        DOI:10.1145/3468691
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        1. Autism
        2. Computational thinking
        3. Computer-aided instruction
        4. Social stories

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