Upskilling Preservice Teachers to Support Young Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder through Digital Social Stories
EARLY-ASD aims to develop a HE course curriculum with a specific focus on early intervention in developing social and emotional skills of children with ASD by creating digital social stories that are easy to access, and training preservice teachers to apply those stories with a handbook that will serve as a practical guide.
EARLY-ASD includes both descriptive and experimental project activities. Descriptive activities will be used for the data collection processes such as online survey applications and workshop organisations while experimental activities will allow us to see the effectiveness of the developed outcomes through a two-folded process: one is the piloting course for preschool teachers and the other one is the early intervention process maintained with children with ASD.
Expected Project Results:
-Course curriculum with a specific focus on early intervention in developing social and emotional skills of preschool children with ASD
– Digital social stories explaining social situations in intelligible ways, teach social skills and help children cope with difficulties in social situations
– Practical Guide “How to use digital social stories for the social and emotional development of children with ASD?”
Number project – 2024-1-PL01-KA220-HED-000246304
Amount of funding – 250 000,00 EUR
Project implementation period – 01.09.2024 – 28.02.2027
Project leader University of Warsaw – Faculty of Pedagogy
Partners project:
- UNIVERSITATEA DIN BUCURESTI (Romania)
- UNIVERSIDAD DE COMPULTENSE DE MADRID (Spain)
- CANAKKALE ONSEKIZ MART UNIVERSITESI (Turkey)
- MELLIS EGITIM TEKNOLOJI TICARET LIMITED SIRKETI (Turkey)
- AKADEMIA PEDAGOGIKI SPECJALNEJ IM. MARII GRZEGORZEWSKIEJ (Poland)
UW research team:
– dr hab. Joanna Madalińska-Michalak – Project leader
– prof. dr hab. Grzegorz Szumski
– dr hab. Joanna Smogorzewska prof. ucz.