@inproceedings{ISI:000326292900056,
title = {DISABILITY LEARNING TOOL: BRUSHING-TEETH USING MUSIC FOR AUTISM},
author = {A Othman and F N Kamarudin},
editor = {LG Chova and DM Belenguer and AL Martinez},
issn = {2340-1117},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
booktitle = {EDULEARN11: 3RD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON EDUCATION AND NEW LEARNING
TECHNOLOGIES},
pages = {354-363},
publisher = {IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION A& DEVELOPMENT},
address = {LAURI VOLPI 6, VALENICA, BURJASSOT 46100, SPAIN},
series = {EDULEARN Proceedings},
abstract = {This research is an attempt of combining music with the 3D animation
technique in order to develop a disability-learning tool which can be
used as one of occupational therapy for autism children. Autism is a
developmental disability of the brain, much like dyslexia, mental
retardation, or attention deficit disorder that often makes it hard to
communicate with and relate to others. The treatment that we are going
to apply in our research is related to the occupational therapies which
involved music, multisensory stimulant and computer usage. Occupational
therapy assists autistic people in developing the skills for daily job
such as brushing teeth. Music can stimulate brain and help individuals
with a wide range of cognitive and emotional challenges to improve their
ability to function. Music primarily can help autism children improve
their observable level of functioning and self-reported quality of life
in various domains such as cognitive functioning, motor skills,
emotional and effective development, behavior and social skills. The
problem that we are trying to overcome by doing this project is the
independence among autism children. At the autism centre where we did
our research, they are manually taught by parent or teachers and they
have to teach the same thing every day. For example, the teachers have
to show them every day on how to brush teeth using the teeth set and the
big tooth brush. They seem cannot remember all the steps. In this
research, by collaborating these elements, we try to develop a 3D
animation disability-learning tool to help in stimulating independence
in autism children. Music is included in the animation as part of the
treatment. The objectives of this projects are first to investigate and
analyze the acceptance of different types of music among autism
children. Our second objective is to develop a 3D animation that show
steps in brushing teeth according to the beat of the selected music. The
third objective is to analyze the effectiveness of the application in
stimulating remembrance brushing technique skills. 3D animation is a
technique that can visualize characters or movement as same as in the
real life. The current technology of 3D animation exist today is
amazing. This application which is called Disability Learning Tool:
Brushing-Teeth Using Music for Autism has been tested to a group of
autism children with mild cases and has shown positive result. It can be
seen that the independence in the autism children gradually increased.
However, there's a lot more to do for further improvement and we are
going to look into each of these weaknesses in detail.},
note = {3rd International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies
(EDULEARN), Barcelona, SPAIN, JUL 04-06, 2011},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}

@inproceedings{ISI:000326447703099,
title = {THE IMPACT OF INFORMAL CONVERSATIONAL AND VISIBLE AUTHOR PRINCIPLE IN
INCREASING AWARENESS OF AUTISM THROUGH MULTIMEDIA LEARNING},
author = {Jasni Dolah and Wan Ahmad Jaafar Wan Yahaya and Toh Seong Chong},
editor = {LG Chova and IC Torres and AL Martinez},
isbn = {978-84-614-7423-3},
year = {2011},
date = {2011-01-01},
booktitle = {INTED2011: 5TH INTERNATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
CONFERENCE},
pages = {3637-3641},
publisher = {IATED-INT ASSOC TECHNOLOGY EDUCATION & DEVELOPMENT},
address = {LAURI VOLPI 6, VALENICA, BURJASSOT 46100, SPAIN},
abstract = {The purpose of this paper is to explain the impact of Informal
Conversational and Visible Author principle in enhancing awareness of
parents in learning autistic character through the use of Multimedia
Learning. The main objective of this research is to increase the level
of awareness amongst autistic parents especially on how to identify the
early symptoms of autistic children. Based on these two principles,
hopefully it could support and increase the level of cognitive load,
awareness and motivation. The purpose of this alternative being
introduced is to spark their awareness in identifying the early
characteristic so that the autistic parent's can do an early prevention
in identifying the autism symptoms. The selection of these principles
was based on the literature review that relate to cognitive theories of
learning which is human strive to make sense of presented material by
applying appropriate cognitive process. Thus instruction should not only
present information but also spark the suitable cognitive processing in
the learner. The issues of this research were derived from the feedback
received from the respondents through the Preliminary Investigation (
PI) that has been conducted earlier. The lack of knowledge of autism
symptoms among society in Malaysia are the main issues that lead to this
problem. The findings from this paper will help researcher to develop an
Interactive Multimedia Learning Awareness (IMLA) tools so that it can
help the parent's to use in identifying the early characteristic of
autism children in future.},
note = {5th International Technology, Education and Development Conference
(INTED), Valencia, SPAIN, MAR 07-09, 2011},
keywords = {},
pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {inproceedings}
}