Road-crossing module in VR therapy

This is a pilot study to investigate the ability of a virtual reality based intervention
to improve cognitive, social and self-care skill in children with
autism.Autism is a behaviourally-dened condition, but is caused by a number
of dierent known and unknown biologically based brain dysfunctions that
aect the developing brain's ability to handle information.Autism is a neurodevelopmental
disorder.One in 68 children are diagnosed with Autism Spectrum
Disorder(ASD) all around the world according to the Centre of Autism
Disease Control and Prevention Survey, makes it a demanding problem to be
addressed.
Many children with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) are not independent
in street crossing.This skill is particularly crucial because it involves
exposure to potentially dangerous situations and is an important step in
the development of independence.In Virtual Reality (VR) it facilitates a safe
environment enabling a gradual increase in the complexity of task approaching
the condition of real life.scored. A pedestrian safety checklist scored
from taped video clips assessed the children's street crossing skills within a
protected real sidewalk before and after VR intervention. The results demonstrated
that children with ASD were capable of learning to use the Virtual
Environment (VE). Signicant dierences were found between the performance
of the experimental and control groups within the VE.Finally, half of
the experimental subjects made considerable improvement in their pedestrian
behavior within the protected real-street setting following the VR intervention.
The results indicate that VR may be used for teaching street-crossing
skills due the likelihood to real life situations.

MSC DA 2017-2019 INT Dr Manoj Kumar T K