Little Angels School using Kinect with children who have Autism

1. Microsoft Kinect and Autism
Susan McCarthy
@LittleAngelsSch
#tmnw

2. WHAT IS AUTISM?
Triad of
Impairments
Social
Communication
Interaction
Imagination

4. • Social
• Physical
Advantages
of using • Kinaesthetic
Kinect for • Playful learning
Children • Highly engaging
with Autism
• Shared attention
• Common goal

5. Where are all the Kinect Apps?

6. There are 3
games
available
commercially
which my
pupils engage
with

7. • Somantics –
www.somantics.org
Open- • Reactickles –
www.reactickles.org
Source • Visikord –
Software www.visikord.com
KinectSEN –
• www.kinectsen.wikispaces.com

8. Kinect2Scratch
Developed by Stephen Howell
Twitter @saorog
Available at www.scratch.saorog.com
Leap Motion Demo : Leap Controller with Scratch Demo - YouTube

9. Kinect and Autism on Pinterest
www.littleangelsschool.net

10. For people without
disabilities, technology makes
things easier, for people with
disabilities technology makes things
possible.
Mary Pat Radabaugh, Director, IM National Support Centre
for Persons with Disabilities, 1988