M-Learning First Word Android Application to support Autistic Children with their Education

Autism is an impaired communication and social interaction with the outsiders. It is a type of Neural Disorder, which leads to the insufficient growth of the brain. The humans get affected by this disorder will be between the age 1-3. These children will have less maturity than the normal people, so they cannot understand and learn things easily. The teaching methodologies remains similar for both normal and autism affected children. The guardians find difficult to train the autism affected people using only the objects. The objective of this paper is to design a system named First Word that will help autistic children in their education. The application will run on the Android platform, a famous platform where a greater number of smart phone device applications run. The application will be designed based on a study on the characteristics of children with autism spectrum disorders. Autism currently affects 1 in every 100 American children impairing their social interactions, communications and daily living. Often, parents, educators, and researchers need to acquire expensive equipment to help autistic children to cope with the challenges in their daily lives. In this paper, the Smartphone-Based Autism application is designed which helps such children. The biggest challenges that the society faces are that to make sure that each autistic children get educated in a proper way, so that they may extend their skills and consequently, contribute to the society.