Empowering Autistic kids for independent communication in context of Jellow AAC


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Creator/Artist: Jaanhavi S P

Category: Interaction Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2021-2023

Source: India,   IDC IIT Bombay

Period:  2019-onwards

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. Ravi Poovaiah


Detailed Description

Augmented and alternative communication (AAC) means all ways someone communicates besides talking. An AAC device is usually something like an iPad or tablet containing multiple icons that would read aloud to the other person or people. One such application is Jellow, developed at the IDC school of design at IITB. My project was to empower non-verbal autistic kids aged 3–10 years for independent communication using Jellow. My project was to understand the problems faced by nonverbal children and develop features to the app that would make them as independent as possible in terms of daily routine, hygiene, and making simple food. These features are activities to teach them the same through incorporating Jellow’s auditory feedback, which helps the kids communicate and demand their needs. The features were presented to multiple Speech-Language Pathologists (SLP); comments were noted, and a few were incorporated.