LINKX aims to learn autistic children the words of objects in their own environment. This helps them learn the meaning of words. This is done by means of speech-o-grams (pictograms with speech). Parents record words inside them and attach them to objects before play starts. Children can link blocks to these speech-o-gram. Each link results in lights that go on and a sound that is played. The sound moves into the block. You can link blocks and speech-o-grams over and over and this will eventually make them remember the word. You can also link blocks together. When one block owns a sound, it will move to the other block. Again doing this again and again will stimulate language learning.
Author: Helma van Rijn
Affiliation: ID-StudioLab, University of Delft (The Netherlands).
Project website: http://www.helmavanrijn.nl/Projects/linkx-for-autistic-toddlers
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