How has ICT helped People with Autism
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How has ICT helped People with Autism Autism is a "brain disorder that begins in early childhood and persists throughout adulthood", [1] autism is a disease that affects three areas of a child's development. They are social interaction, communication and creative or imaginative play. Now teachers, parents, carers and computer companies have realized how much progress a child with autism can make using a computer. Autism affects "115,000 families in the UK" [2], all these families have had to find special schools and items to help their child to deal with this problem. These schools will be more populated by boys as autism, "affects four times as many boys as girls" [3]. Autism affects all races and nationalities so it has nothing to do with where you live or what colour skin you have. It is a disease to do with the brain. It interferes with the way the brain develops social...


