Ben Ewart-Dean

This paper is a presentation of the researcher’s PhD research, which is an investigation into the ways that film-making can help to improve the social communication skills of children on the autism spectrum. Research into how children with autism engage with screen-based technology is primarily concerned with how screens can…

Research into how children with autism use screen-based technology is primarily concerned with how it can be used to transmit information, for instance how behaviour presented onscreen to children can be used to teach them practical and social skills. Whilst this method is very useful from an educational perspective, it…