Engaging students with profound and multiple disabilities using humanoid robots

Engagement is the single best predictor of successful learning for children with intellectual disabilities yet achieving engagement with pupils who have profound or multiple disabilities (PMD) presents a challenge to educators. Robots have been used to engage children with autism but are they effect...

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Main Authors: Standen, Penny, Brown, David, Roscoe, Jess, Hedgecock, Joseph, Stewart, David, Galvez Trigo, Maria Jose, Elgajiji, Elmunir
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer Verlag 2014
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/41284/