Comprasion of the effectiveness of the paper based activity schelude with the tablet based one on children with the autism spectrum disorder

Individuals with a special need, autism spectrum disorders are very important in terms of their development in primary education. One of the important educational tools used in the education of these children is activity schedule. Developing technology also provides important contributions to the education of individuals with special needs. It is intended to investigate the effectiveness of using event schedule with tablet based activity schedule instead of the traditional activity schedule. For this reason, two students enrolled in a special education institution in the province of Istanbul have been identified as participants. Three target behaviors (t-shirt wearing, hand washing, airplane making and painting) were determined as dependent variables of the research. The model of the study was designed according to the ABC pattern from the single subject experimental designs. As a result of the application, it was determined that the tablet based activity schedule was more effective than the traditional activity schedule. In future studies, the effect of different variables that may be effective in the tablet based activity schedule can be investigated.