PICTOAPRENDE: Application that contributes to the personal autonomy of children and youth with autism spectrum disorder in Ecuador

This paper describes the PICTOAPRENDE application, which is designed to improve verbal communication and development of personal autonomy in children and youth with moderate autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in Ecuador. PICTOAPRENDE is an application on Android platform, which provides options to children and young people to learn basic routines, emergency numbers and more. Facilitating integration into society through the use of digital communicators and pictograms. The area of intervention presents basic concepts related to ASD, as well as various problems both in behavior and in the development of the beneficiary population. Finally impact measurement was performed in a large sample reaching important results for research.