Author(s)

Xinru Zhang ¹, Yuyan Yang ¹, Shangyi Dai ¹, Hongshuang Qiu ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ Xi'an Polytechnic University, Xi'an, Shaanxi, China

Corresponding Author

Xinru Zhang

ABSTRACT

At present, the number of autistic children is increasing year by year, and the traditional teaching methods are facing severe challenges. Among them, emotional understanding disorder has become the main bottleneck of social development of autistic children. Smart education builds an ecological learning environment with the help of information technology, which brings new opportunities for educational innovation. In this context, this study proposes a smart education method based on facial communication, aiming to innovate the education program for autistic children. The research comprehensively uses the literature research method and the interview method, takes 5 diagnosed autistic children and 5 undiagnosed children as the research objects, and carries out educational practice with the help of intelligent electronic devices. Researchers compared the performance of the two groups of children in a variety of facial expression recognition tests and conducted an in - depth analysis based on the IPO model. The results show that the education method can effectively detect the facial expression recognition ability of autistic children, and after controlling the age and IQ factors, the test scores of the autistic children group and the control group are significantly different. This shows that the intelligent education method based on facial communication is feasible and effective, and provides a new effective way for the education of autistic children.

KEYWORDS

Autism, Facial Communication, Smart Education

CITE THIS PAPER

Xinru Zhang, Yuyan Yang, Shangyi Dai, Hongshuang Qiu, 'Starlight Pilot'-Innovation of Intelligent Education Method Based on Facial Communication to Identify Educational Programs for Autistic Children. Applied & Educational Psychology (2025) Vol. 6: 178-183. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/appep.2025.060224.

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