Technology holds great promise for helping students with autism learn, communicate, and function effectively in the modern world. Start leveraging that power today with this forward-thinking book, your in-depth guided tour of technologies that support learners with autism and help them fully participate in their classroom and community. You'll learn about readily available technologies you can use right now-from apps to video modeling-and explore next-wave innovations that will help shape the future of autism intervention, such as therapeutic robots and advanced virtual reality technologies. You'll also get critical guidance on how to select the appropriate technology for your needs, weave technology into a universal design for learning framework, and conduct effective professional development so teachers make the most of new tools and strategies.Discover technologies that helpsupport the overall learning of children on the autism spectrumteach social skills and support emotion regulation through independent data collectiondevelop executive function strategies and improve flexibility, memory, and transitionsboost literacy and language skillssupport young adults' transition to the workplacemake data collection and program evaluation more effective and efficientstrengthen teacher training programsenhance use of evidence-based practicesExplore the benefits of technologies likeapps for education, communication, behavior regulation, and morevideo modelinglanguage processing softwarecustomized digital stories and book creator appselement cue supportsemotional regulation and sensing technologiesinteractive learning software to improve feedback and metacognitionvisualization and mind mapping appstext-to-speech and speech to text softwaree-readers and tablets with integrated multimedia (e.g., cameras, microphones, etc.) electronic data collection forms for use with handheld devicesand more
