AI-Based Communication Tool for High-Functioning Autistic Children

High-functioning autistic children tend to have poor verbal and nonverbal communication skills, which makes it hard for them to understand people’s cues and blend in with their community. This paper presents a solution to help Arabic-speaking autistic children communicate effectively and understand others’ feelings. Our AI-based Communication Tool uses a mobile camera to capture the speaker’s image and informs the autistic child of their emotions through a mobile app. We used images from the FER+ dataset to train on several TensorFlow models to achieve accurate facial recognition. We achieved 83.97% accuracy. Furthermore, we develop games on the mobile application using Unity to help autistic children practice different social scenarios.