Virtual reality
WHY?
- Virtual reality (VR) is also used to help children with ASD with social attention problems. A child with ASD often finds it difficult to read facial expressions, pick up visual cues or pay attention to other person while they speak.
VR social training offers several advantages compared to traditional social skills interventions: it can provide safe, unlimited, and commonly encountered day-to-day contexts to practice social scenarios, such as finding someone to sit with in the lunchroom or inviting someone to your birthday party.
- VR can help reduce the social anxiety, provide the opportunity for repeated practice in dynamic, constantly changing social exchanges.
- Computer technology is often highly motivating and rewarding for students with ASD.
HOW?
- Develop/ buy a VR environment based on collaboration
- Try to collaborate with a profile company that can help you develop a VR environment for your students.
Try contacting a company that can deliver such a product https://www.oculus.com/rift/#oui-csl-rift-games=star-trek
- Google Play Store/Apple’s App Store
- Search on Google Play Store or Apple’s App Store for different VR environments for students with ASD
- Download an app that suits your purpose
- Buy a virtual reality headset for your phone (e.g. 2 $ VR Google Cardboard; 100 $ Gear VR with Controller)
- Try to use the app in the class
EXAMPLE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT7AlMYfvcU&list=PL7drMhnJoNsV1VScYX4n5aKomwYhkcbkM&index=12
EXERCISE
1. Watch the movie from the example again
2. Write on a sheet of paper how you think the presented VR environment can help you in class
3. Write two / three possible variants of acquiring / developing an VR environment/ equipment
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