To develop the Mandarin-phonetic-symbol communication aid for high-functioning autism children

In this study, a Mandarin-phonetic-symbol communication aid named as zhuyin communication board is developed for children with high-functioning autism. The zhuyin communication board can execute on Tablet PC to assists autistic children to express their thought to other people. When an autistic child wants to express his thought, he can press the corresponding phonetic symbols by using the developed zhuyin communication board. To motivate the interesting of autistic children, the developed app provides a picture-based testing for learning Mandarin phonetic symbols of variety objects. Compared with the traditional paper keyboard, the developed aid could show the typing phonetic symbol immediately on the screen, and provides the voice of zhuyin pronunciation to improve autistic children´s language perception skill.