Teaching greeting to children with autism is one of the important steps to help kids to have better communication skills and achieve more social success. However, teaching social greeting is way more than teaching kids to say hi, or wave hello. To teach social greetings to children with autism, it is important to also teach the important non-verbal greetings and the ways people use their body to interact with others.
For example, often children with ASD have difficulty in personal space regulation and they have challenges to find their correct personal distance while having a conversation. That’s why, it is important to include activities to practice personal distance while teaching social greeting to students with autism.
Also, it is important to include activities to teach non-verbal communications, such as looking toward another person and smiling when saying hi.
QTrobot is a humanoid social robot developed to help children with autism to learn new skills. QTrobot uses a variety of activities and games to help children with autism to improve their social skills and help them to be more engaged and focused.
QTrobot has several educational lessons developed to teach greeting to children with autism spectrum disorder in an age-appropriate way. Through these lessons, QTrobot teaches when to greet people, how to greet them, how to keep a correct personal distance and how to have a correct gaze toward other people while greeting.
This video is a demonstration of how QTrobot teaches keeping a personal distance when greeting others and how to have a proper posture and head direction while communicating.
To learn more about QTrobot, please check:
https://luxai.com/qt-robot-for-autism