{"id":233758,"date":"2021-04-22T21:09:37","date_gmt":"2021-04-22T18:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/hong-kong-robots-help-autistic-children-boost-social-skills\/"},"modified":"2021-04-22T21:09:37","modified_gmt":"2021-04-22T18:09:37","slug":"hong-kong-robots-help-autistic-children-boost-social-skills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/hong-kong-robots-help-autistic-children-boost-social-skills\/","title":{"rendered":"#Hong Kong robots help autistic children boost social skills"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Hong Kong robots help autistic children boost social<\/a> skills<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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A Hong Kong professor has developed an educational program using role-playing robots to help children with autism improve their social skills, part of an initiative adopted by non-profit groups and schools.<\/p>\n

The program, Robot for Autism Behavioral Intervention (RABI), is designed for people with autism between the ages of 3 and 18 and aims to help them be more social and to resolve issues such as conflicts and bullying.<\/p>\n

Catherine So, associate professor of educational psychology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, told Reuters more than 1,200 children have used the programme since its 2015 launch.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndividuals with autism have low motivation to interact with others and hypersensitivity to the world around them,\u201d So said. \u201cSo we use the social robots to teach them social skills in order to reduce their anxiety.\u201d<\/p>\n

The robots engage the children with role-playing and verbal interaction. A typical class involves two small robots acting out social scenarios on a table top, helping the children see the difference between app<\/a>ropriate and unacceptable behaviour such as tantrums or screaming.<\/p>\n

Muse Wong, 41, said her 5-year-old daughter has been in the programme for seven months and her social and communicative skills have improved vastly.<\/p>\n

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Autism\u00a0tutor\u00a0Sarah\u00a0Ng\u00a0uses robots to teach a 5-year-old child with special needs to introduce herself, in Hong\u00a0Kong, China April 17, 2021.<\/figcaption>
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\u201cShe has started to have some degree of social life\u201d, Wong said.<\/p>\n

After interacting with the robots, the children are encouraged to try out their social skills with a human tutor.<\/p>\n

More than 20 non-profit groups financed by governments and public schools in Hong Kong and Macau have adopted the programme. So hopes the project will help fight against exclusion.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe RABI can help children with autism improve their social and behavioral skills and in turn enhance the quality of their life\u201d, she said.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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“#Hong Kong robots help autistic children boost social skills” A Hong Kong professor has developed an educational program using role-playing robots to help children with autism improve their social skills, part of an initiative adopted by non-profit groups and schools. The program, Robot for Autism Behavioral Intervention (RABI), is designed for people with autism between…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":233759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/04\/2021-04-22T041857Z_1523330513_RC2S0N9RVX1O_RTRMADP_3_HEALTH-AUTISM-HONGKONG-ROBOTS-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=1200","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[70897],"tags":[103011,71978,14580,43256,5049],"class_list":["post-233758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-4-22-21","tag-autism","tag-children","tag-hong-kong","tag-robots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}