A high percentage of people with autism show difficulties in understanding the imagination. When the mother or the teacher say “look how the teaspoon is turning into an aeroplane’, many of them show themselves to be indifferent and seem to neither understand nor internalise this type of imaginary transformation.
With the help of virtual reality it was possible to explicitly recreate this type of transformation. In this line of investigation the tool ‘I’m going to do it as if…’ was developed, of which 5,500 copies were distributed to different classrooms and centres that are dedicated to autism. This tool was developed with the financing of IMSERSO (Ministry of Employment and Social Affairs) and the Ministry of Science and Technology (the current Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Tourism).
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