Autistic children tend to have developmental setbacks with social and relationship skills. These children can overcome these hurtles with extreme care and attention, modeling someone possessing effective social skills. This can become every time consuming for the parents and because it is a round the clock job can become very expensive as well.
With that in mind, it is understandable and every encouraged (financially) the invention of robot to monitor children with autism. It could potentially make the streamline the treatment streamline and make it cost-effective. But how would the robot be able to teach the child effective social skills.
An essential part in building social skills and emotions are learning how to respond in other reactions and emotional states. Though this has been the roadblock for the development of this robot, even if the reaction is perfected, it would be impossible for the robot to have every accurate response to an autistic child, if so humans would have perfected it first.
Computers are great, but they can not replace human interaction, which is essential to anyone suffering from any type of emotional or mental disability. I could not feel safe leaving my child with a robot expecting it to know what my child needs at every moment, emotions are erratic, computers are not even designed that way. This could be an advantage for the pocket, but a true disadvantage for the child that needs no more disadvantages.
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I agree about the robot not being able to replace human interactions. However it might not be so bad having a robot to help with motor skills and emotions with adult supervision. Sometimes toys and games can help children develop motor skills, remember when you were young and had toys that said whatever the picture was that you know how to say it. All I am saying that do not completely shut the idea down, find some common ground between the pros and the cons.
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