A systematic review of modalities in computer-based interventions (CBIs) for language comprehension and decoding skills of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD)

Khowaja, Kamran and Salim, Siti Salwah and Asemi, Adeleh and Ghulamani, Sumbul and Shah, Asadullah (2020) A systematic review of modalities in computer-based interventions (CBIs) for language comprehension and decoding skills of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Universal Access in the Information Society, 19 (2). pp. 213-243. ISSN 1615-5289

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Abstract

This paper presents a systematic review of the literature on the modalities used in computer-based interventions (CBIs) andthe impact of using these interventions in the learning, generalisation, and maintenance of language comprehension and decoding skills for children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), ending with an appraisal of the certainty of evidence.Despite the importance of both skills in the reading comprehension and overall learning, a limited number of studies have been found. These include seven studies on language comprehension and seven studies on decoding. The shortlisted studies were analysed and a very limited number of modalities were found to have been used; text, graphics, audio, video, and mouse movement are used in all the studies and are termed basic modalities. Statistical analysis was also conducted on three parameters: (1) outcome of the study; (2) generalisation; and (3) maintenance. The analysis showed that CBIs were effective in facilitating these children’s learning; there was a significant improvement in the performance of children from the baseline to during and the post-intervention period. The analysis of generalisation has revealed positive results, indicating that the children were able to transfer information to a different setting or situation. Positive results are also noted from the analysis of maintenance, which indicate that the children retained information following the withdrawal of intervention. The combination of teachers’ instructions and CBI has provided better results than using either of them separately. This study has discovered 23 potential modalities and 2 potential CBIs including serious games and virtual learning environments thatcan be explored for language comprehension and decoding skills.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	6566/81834
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) · Language comprehension skills · Decoding skills · Computer-based intervention (CBI) · Multimodal interfaces · Modalities, serious games, virtual reality, augmented reality
Subjects:	T Technology > T Technology (General) > T10.5 Communication of technical information
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Information System Kulliyyah of Information and Communication Technology > Department of Information System
Depositing User:	Prof Asadullah Shah
Date Deposited:	07 Aug 2020 16:24
Last Modified:	23 Dec 2020 15:29
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/81834

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