Mobile Platform – Disorder Patients
Recommendation Mobile Platform For Disorder Patients
Autism Spectrum Disease (ASD) is a kind of crucial neurodevelopmental disorders in brain with lifelong impacts [1]. In general, ASD indicates verbal and non-verbal communication problems such as difficulties in disclosing to people, things, events. In addition, constant body movements or behaviors are typically observed from the people who have been diagnosed with ASD [1]. Even if those are determining principles by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V) [2], the disorder changes from person to person, in severity and combinations of symptoms and there is not a medical test that can diagnose it [2]. In 2014, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has released a study that found that 1 in 68 children aged 8 years had ASD in multiple communities in the United States [3]. In Portugal, the prevalence of ASD in 2007 estimated 10 per 10,000 children [4]. Although there is still no cure for autism, is known that early diagnosis and mediation can improves children development. That is why therapy and a daily training and support from patient relatives can significantly improve the expectation of the disease [2].
Children with autism often need external motivation to initiate, maintain, or terminate an activity [5]. Technological elevation gave devices the capability to bring visual, tactile and mechanic feedback, which can be used for children with autism, since this kind of motivations are generally better influence than human motivations [5]. The aim of this system is to meet the increasing needs of autistic children with the help of technology by taking into account the existence of limited solutions. Mobile Platform – Disorder Patients
The percentage of individuals with ASD who can live without any help is very low, most of them need lots of helps in their life. However, it’s settled that, if they have access to appropriate resource and support, they can be in society properly, developing their quality of life, achieve a greater degree of autonomy.Due to these reasons, the system proposed aims to improve the quality of life of the patients with ASD and increase autonomy as much as possible with the use of the latest technologies in mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets [6]. Computer games have been progressively mediated via iPods, smartphones and tablet devices. One of the benefits of tablet devices, besides letting users to….Show More Content….