Courseware development course ‘I Like Learning’ for Malay language learning among austisme children

Children with autism usually have difficulty learning as it is quite hard to attract their attentions. In this research, educational software named ‘I Like Learning’ has been developed to help children with autism learn Malay Language. The research respondents were five primary school students in Kuala Lumpur who had been diagnosed with mild level of autism. For the monitoring purposes, the existing monitoring form with some modification according to the research needs, suggested by Megan Davis, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Chrystopher L. Nehaniv and Stuart D. Powell in their research entitled The Narrative Construction of Our (Social) World: Steps towards an Interactive Learning Environment for Children with Autism was used. The research findings were analysed using a Qualitative content analysis based on several research questions with some modification that was also suggested in their research. The result shows that the educational software that has been developed using ADDIE methodology is able to attract the children’s attention in learning Malay Language subject.