A Intervention Study With Using Virtual Reality Technology For Children With Autism

This thesis aims to study the effect of virtual reality technology on autistic children. Theresearch consists of two parts which are theoretical and interfering study.1. Theoretical researchStatistics show that the study of virtual reality technology on autistic children is mainly inresearch constitutions of overseas. But relative domestic literature is less. The research directionconcentrates on three points: First of all the usage and understanding of the virtual situation.Thenthe effect of soaking and the feeling of existence.Last to use the things which we learned from thevirtual environment into the real world.Compared with other interfering methods the virtual reality technology have someoutstanding advantages.1.It creates a cozy and safety education environment for users.2.It helpsusers to solve multicenter feeling problems.3.To cater to the visual thinking mode.4.It can promotethe migration of the user’s skill.5.It can improve the cognitive flexibility of the autistic people.6.Itcan improve the "theory of mind" of the autistic people.7.It can provide the user with individualitytreatment.2. Intervention studyA. The participantsSix children of HuiCong Recovery school of Ganzhou cityB. Laboratory equipment&Research designInter sensory training course “KaiXing fairyland”.Single group design is adopted to study the differences of relative data in different teachingmode as well as under the same virtual reality technological teaching mode..C. Data collection and processinga. Data collectionData is composed of three parts:1. The score evaluated by teacher after class.2. The testerwill videotape the interfering site once a week.3. Number of unit training success will be testedon the first week and two months later.b. Data processingMicroscopic analysis is used to code the6000seconds recording content by3seconds.D. Statistical analysisPaired sample t testE. The process of interventionBased on the evaluation results, six subjects will be chosen to do comparative study undertraditional and virtual reality technology teaching modes in the original learning environment for six months. It follows the order of evaluating intervention objects, creating interferenceenvironment, and using intervention strategies to explore self consciousness, social cognizance,etc.F. The performance testThe results of Paired sample t test indicate that virtual reality technology can improveattention and positive emotions significantly.The results show that, virtual reality technology can effectively attract the attention of theparticipants to improve their interest in learning.At the same time, compared with the traditionalteaching model positive emotions also presents a significant growth. After two months of practice,unit practice scores of six children were significantly increased.G. SummaryThis study proves the necessity and feasibility of virtual reality technology on autisticchildren of early stages. It shows that as long as you follow the laws of the autism children’ssocial cognitive development characteristics, virtual reality technology can effectively improvetheir self-consciousness, social cognitive ability by using virtual reality technology.