An assistive technology imply any article, an apparatus, or manufactured goods that is utilized to augment, retain, or develop functional competence of disabled persons. As per the Technology-Related Assistance for Individuals with Disabilities Act of 1988, assistive technology service is a kind of service that directly helps and aids a person suffering from a disability in the choice, possession, or usage of an assistive technology device. These could be either obtained commercially, off-the-shelf, modified or customized.

There are various assistive technology based equipments that assists in augmenting the functional disabilities of an autistic child. This technology is developed based on the fact that autistic children need to improve their communication, social, attention, motivation, organization, academic and overall skills to function independently on a daily basis.

An autistic child responds better to a visual sequence than to auditory information hence assistive technology based equipments or gadgets that cater for visual sequences can prove to be of great help for them. Hence, any form of visual representation system if used in their daily activities will certainly help them a long way. A visual representation can be of many types for instance, line drawings, real objects, photographs, written words, realistic pictures or drawings etc.

One must be aware which visual representation one must begin with. Researchers suggest that one must start with line drawings and then gradually shifts to more realistic photographs and then the real objects. There is also software available called Boardmaker developed by Mayer-Johnson programmed for both children and adults. Its user friendly software which encompasses 3,000 picture communication symbol library presented in both white and black color. These pictures are a clear presentation of objects with no vagueness. These can be very well recognized by autistic children.

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