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What is it about?
Some children with Autism Spectrum Disorder have little or no functional speech and benefit from augmentative and alternative communication approaches. Often they rely on graphic symbols to communicate. Graphic symbols for action words are difficult to understand. In this study we show that animation (compared to static symbols) can help children with ASD understand action verbs.