Augmented Reality to Reinforce Working Memory in Children with ASD. A Case Studies

Mónica R. Romero; Ivana Harari; Javier Diaz; Estela M. Macas; Nancy Armijos

Resumen:

re interventions conducted using augmented reality beneficial for the working memory of children with autism spectrum disorder? This article describes a case study, which reviewed working memory in children who used Hope Software, the objective of the study was to assess whether children can remember after one year of the intervention the processes of imitation, perception, visual coordination, motor skills from sequences of auditory, visual stimuli, in direct, reverse and increasing order. The research was worked under the mixed approach, the type of research was experimental, descriptive and purposeful, it had the participation and guidance of a multidisciplinary team, it was carried out at the Ludic Place Therapeutic Center in Quito Ecuador, during the period from June to December 2022, A proposal was built that allows obtaining metrics through an assessment carried out through participatory design methods. The results obtained indicate that after one year of the intervention the participants remembered the processes, they even repeated some sequences, so we conclude that the use of augmented reality can favors working memory in children with autism.