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'Baldi' Helps Kids With Autism 		   
Summary Statement:

Virtual Talking Head Teaches Autistic Children Language Skills

Children generally love to play with computers, but many children with autism prefer interacting with a computer to conversing with a person. Many scientists have been working on ways to take advantage of that to help autistic kids learn.

A virtual talking head, or "embodied conversational agent," nicknamed Baldi by its creators, is one of the latest technologies being used to teach language skills to autistic kids. Dominic Massaro, PhD, a language researcher at the University of California, Santa Cruz, demonstrated Baldi at this week's annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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speech,  language,  talking
Submission Date:

02/18/2008by: shannonj
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