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Birmingham
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(ACER):

Prof Rita Jordan

Dr Glenys Jones Dr Karen Guldberg Andrea McLeod

Dr Kerstin Wittemeyer

Dr Lila Kossyvaki


(ACER):

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MEd in special education: autism (children)
PhD in Education (autism)

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Kossyvaki, L. (2013) Adult interactive style and autism: reviewing the literature to inform school practice. Good
Autism Practice, 14(2): 23-32.
Kossyvaki, L. Jones, G. and Guldberg, K. (2012) The effect of adult interactive style on the spontaneous
communication of young children with autism at school, British Journal of Special Education, 39(4): 173-184.
Avramides, K., Bernardini, S., Foster, M.E., Frauenberger, C., Kossyvaki, L. and Mademtzi, M. (2012) State of-the-art in
TEL to support social communication skill development in children with autism: a multi-disciplinary review, Int. J.
Technology Enhanced Learning, 4 (5/6): 359372.


(Theory of mind)
(Central Coherence)
(Executive functioning)
(monotropic attention)

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 (.. ECHOES, Cospatial)

(.. Kaspar, NAO)
(.. Kaspar, Probo)
(.. AZAHAR, Brain in hands,

HANDS)
(.. INMER)
(.. Follow me, PICA, NAO)
(.. Pictogram room, Somantics)

CHOES
Cospatial

Somantics
Reactickles
The pictogram room
Nao the robot
Azahar

ECHOES

ECHOES

COSPATIAL:

COSPATIAL presents four interactive programs for encouraging communication and collaboration

Block
Challenge

Talk 2 U

Face2Face

Join In

Somantics

ECHOES

Somantics:

ECHOES

Reactickles

ECHOES

Reactickles: 1

ECHOES

Reactickles: 2

ECHOES

The pictogram room

ECHOES

The pictogram room:

ECHOES

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NAO:

ECHOES

AZAHAR

ECHOES

ECHOES

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: Karen Guldberg1 (PI), Sarah Parsons2, Kaska Prayska-Pomsta3, Wendy

Keay-Bright4, Lila Kossyvaki1, Marilena Mademtzi1, Ben Ewart-Dean4
1University

of Birmingham, 2University of Southampton, 3Institute of Education, 4Cardiff

Metropolitan University

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Ashgrove (www.ashgroveschool.org)
Minworth (www.minworth.bham.sch.uk)
Radlett Lodge (www.autism.org.uk/radlettlodge)
The Hollies (www.theholliesschool.co.uk)
Topcliffe (www.topcliffe.bham.sch.uk)

Trinity fields (www.trinityfieldsschoolandresourcecentre.com)


COSPATIAL

ECHOES

Somantics and Reactivckles

Areas of development for children

conversation skills
flexibility
confidence
collaborate with peers
Fun
skill generalisation

cope with change

attention span
joint attention
motor skills
speech development
fun

conversation skills
social interaction/ e- inclusion
emotional regulation
joint attention
initiations of communication
motor skills
attention span/ engagement level
flexibility
academic
fun/shared enjoyment/ reward
self awareness
creativity

Areas of development for staff

Better assessment of childrens difficulties

improve practice

professional learning community (PLC)

accessible technologies


robots could replace teachers - : Livescience
robots have no emotion, so autistic children find them less
threatening than their teachers and easier to engage with :
BBC
Ipads vs Teachers: Why technology is winning? - : AlterNet
Could Miss be replaced by robots - : Daily Mail
the entire education experience (is) offered via tablet computer : Der Spiegel




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URLs
ACER

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/education/acer/index.asp
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ECHOES http://www.tel.ac.uk/echoes2/
Cospatial http://cospatial.fbk.eu
SOMANTICS http://somantics.org
Reactickles http://reactickles.org
Pictogramme room
http://www.pictogramas.org/proom/loggined.do;jsessionid=A94E52D7EB8
E76943C251B9AEE11099C#
Aldebaran robotics http://www.aldebaran-robotics.com/en/
Azahar http://www.fondationorange.com/Project-Azahar-digital-tools-to
Autism speaks applications: http://www.autismspeaks.org/autismapps?page=1
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