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Using Innovative Technologies as Therapeutic and Educational Tools for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

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Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is defined as a pervasive developmental disorder which involves deficits in social relationships, communication impairments, repetitive behaviors and restricted interests, and hyper-or hypo-reactivity to sensory input. It is typically diagnosed in early childhood, and has a lifelong course.

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  • 12 December 2019

    The surname of the co-author Massimo Zancanaro was misspelled as Zancanero in the previous version of this book. The same has been corrected in this revised version of this book.

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Gal, E., Weiss, P.L.(., Zancanaro, M. (2019). Using Innovative Technologies as Therapeutic and Educational Tools for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder. In: Rizzo, A.“., Bouchard, S. (eds) Virtual Reality for Psychological and Neurocognitive Interventions. Virtual Reality Technologies for Health and Clinical Applications. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-9482-3_10

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