Design for Children with Physical and Mental Disabilities - The ASD Syndrome

Abstract

This paper deals with a very important subject for present society. It is about helping people having certain types and degrees of disabilities to integrate into society, to have a normal life, and to reduce their necessity to rely on other people’s support. This is the case of people suffering from ASD syndrome, whose incidence has increased in the last period. Many children having this disability can be helped to grow up as almost normal adults. Through design, these children can be helped and this paper shows how this action can be performed.