Abstract:
The objective of this project is to develop an android app specifically design to aid
the children suffering from Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) who find it
Challenging to communicate with others.
A person who is suffering from ASD find it difficult to learn new things and figure
out the sentences but it can be made effortless for them to better communicate when
technology plays its part. A Non-verbal communication practice for the ASD
children is the Picture Exchange Communication System in which children using
cards and each card consists of a picture, which can combine to form a complete
sentence. At the current time physical cards is used and there is no application which
helps the people with ASD to talk and communicate freely using virtual picture cards
strike by PECS.
Along with PEC method, our application is going to detect autistic children mood
and expression using Image processing algorithms from OpenCV, show cards
according to mood, built a sentence using Natural Language Processing (NLP) and
speaks also using Text to speech (TTS) according to the selection of cards. An
important aspect of this application is the UI design. It is designed by keeping the
target users in mind
