Recently we were talking about Adrapo, a program to promote literacy learning. Today we are going to talk about another computer tool that is especially aimed at children with communication difficulties.
"In-Tic Agenda" for boys and girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder It is a program that allows you to create activities associated with sequences of pictograms that make up the child's agenda to be able to consult it or even work with it.
In-TIC (acronym for Integration of Information and Communication Technologies) We can find it available for Windows for free. However, it is working to be able to use it in Linux, as well as in mobile devices and tablet PCs with Android operating system.
Its operation is very basic since, as we said before, it tries to imitate the behavior of the conventional agendas that are used for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. That is, power is sought indicate in a simple and visual way the different activities that the child will have to do during the day, indicating place, time, order ...
At the level of learning, this application allows to work all those aspects related to the spatio-temporal structuring, understanding of language, understanding and accepting the changes that may arise in day to day ...
In this way, anyone who uses it can thus structure the different activities that will be carried out during the day to day, being able to create them quickly and easily in the form of sequences of pictograms taking advantage of the opportunities that technology can provide for the benefit of these children and their environment, such as, for example, the Expansion of your communication, learning or entertainment possibilities.
In-Tic Agenda is a project that has been possible thanks to the union between the Orange Foundation and the IMEDIR Group (Center for Medical Informatics and Radiological Diagnosis) of the University of Coruña, as well as the collaboration of several associations of fathers and mothers with different problems in the development of their children.
"In-Tic Agenda" for boys and girls with Autism Spectrum Disorder It is an application that, thanks to its easy use as well as its personalized characteristics for children with problems in its development, can favor many families and professionals who work with this group to help them have a better quality of life.
