DoART: Autism Recreation Therapy Mobile Game Application

DoART or Autism Recreation Therapy is a visual art digital game application designed for autistic students to aid in their learning and recreation learning process. It addresses the difficulties these students face in traditional face-to-face learning and communication. Face to face and conversation technique used in current lesson for Autism students can be stressful. While doing the old teaching technique, Autism students having difficulty to follow the current module of visual art subject using book-based learning in school. This will result the poor outcome for their learning process. Visual art subject can be an important element in the educational process for autism students because this subject is able to highlight creativity and is also able to generate students psychomotor and cognitive processes. The approach of using digital game-based learning is able to increase the concentration of autism students in focusing on the visual art subject. In helping autistic students to focus more on learning process especially visual art subjects, DoART is produced by including interesting elements and filling games that are in line with the learning syllabus. This digital game-based learning application can be commercialized as the main material for autism student to learn the visual art subject. This game application is able to benefit not only autistic students, but it can also help parents and teachers to monitor the student's learning process more easily and flexibly. DoART is able to be commercialized to the autism community and it is able to provide opportunities for those involved like NASOM to take advantage of this application.