Digital libraries on handhelds for autistic children Gondy Leroy, Serena Chuang, John Huang, and Marjorie H. Charlop-Christy   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Poster Session Abstract Autism is a wide spectrum developmental disorder. Its prevalence has increased enormously. Each autistic child has different needs and requires individual therapy. Information technology can help these children and their families by augmenting therapy and providing communication tools. We are developing a digital library that provides such a communication tool on a Pocket PC. The tool will be integrated into the therapy sessions and the children will be able use it daily. Additionally, all the interactions with the tool are logged, allowing the therapist a detailed view of the effects of therapy on the children's communication. BIBTEX  1   M. H. Charlop-Christy, M. Carpenter, L. Le, L. A. LeBlanc, and K. Kellet, "Using the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) with Children with Autism: Assessment of PECS Acquisition, Speech, Social-Communicative Behavior, and Problem Behavior," J. of Appl. Beh. Analysis, 2002, 35, 213--231. 2   M. H. Charlop-Christy, L. Le, and K.A. Freeman, "A Comparison of Video Modeling with In Vivo Modeling for Teaching Children with Autism," J. of Autism and Dev. Dis., 2000, 30, 6,537--552 3   Kathleen Luchini , Chris Quintana , Elliot Soloway, Design guidelines for learner-centered handheld tools, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.135-142, April 24-29, 2004, Vienna, Austria}, ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery