Authors - Fatima Batool, Farzana Jabeen, Tahira Anwar Lashari, Mehvish Rashid Abstract - Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is an invisible disorder that is of ten misdiagnosed in Pakistan due to unawareness and social stigma. There ex ist multiple technological digital interventions for children with autism designed to target their social, emotional or cognitive skills. However, recent studies have overlooked on the intervention integrating the psycho-social and behavioral skills of children with autism. This mixed-method study evaluates the effectiveness of a multi-modal learning framework, SHAAZ, for psycho-social and behavioral skills enhancement of children with ASD. Employing the proposed research design, the 7 week intervention was tested on autistic children with different severity level of disorder, aged 4 to 12 years. The results revealed that across observations, there is an improvement in users performance scores. The System Usability Scale (SUS)andAppQualityandImpactEvaluationbasedonMobileAppRatingScale (MARS) scores for the designed product was 89.16 and 4.27 respectively, imply ing high usability, user engagement and a positive impact on the targeted skills of the users.
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