Interactive Multimedia Systems for Students with Autism

Educational multimedia systems have a potentially important role to play in the education of students with autism. This potential has thus far, however, been largely unexplored. This paper therefore makes a case for the use of multimedia systems for such students, and reviews the current state of the field. It will be argued that a fruitful way of furthering research and development in this area is to develop systems that directly address autism‐specific impairments. This work is important in the context of equality of access to education in that autism tends to be an impediment to quality education but is a condition that requires quality education for its remediation