MULTIMEDIA LEARNING FOR AUTISM

Multimedia Learning for Autism’ is a learning package which was designed especially for young autism children. This learning package is to develop an e-learning education and flash games which involves multimedia elements such as text, images, sound, and animation for kids. Games are means of entertainment and part of children’s lives which indirectly allows the children to think, use their imagination while playing games, improve visual perception and at the same time have fun while gaining knowledge. These introduce the learning engagement through interactivity buttons. ‘Multimedia Learning for Autism’ is not developed to replace the traditional method of learning but it is simply a learning package and teaching aid to be used by the kids and the teachers/guardian. Users can take the advantage from using this eLearning software as it allows them to use their imagination and visualization so that they will understand more to help them especially for the autism individuals who have cognition problem that is having difficulties in abstract thinking as well as preservative thinking and weakened capability to process figurative information so a game like computer version of Pictionary will be added. It will be the key features for this learning package to help with their cognitive skills. All of the contents are based on the books and games that are purposely made for them to make sure that the author will be providing the target audience with the right information. This learning package will be developed by using Adobe Flash CS3 and Actionscript 2.0. The author hopes that after user use and interacts with this application, they will be able to gain the knowledge and it will fully benefit the target audience.