AUTOR is a text-processing tool which can give you feedback on how easy or difficult your text is for a person with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Furthermore, AUTOR can help you with making your text more accessible by suggesting ways to rewrite it, as well as suggesting images or definitions which could help the reader understand it better. AUTOR is based on scientific research involving adult participants who were diagnosed with autism.
Want to find out more?
Watch AUTOR on ITV News and hear RGCL PhD Student Victoria Yaneva and Autism West Midlands talk about how the technology works and why it is important to people who suffer with ASD.
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Check out our call to action for further information on how you can help make this great research even greater: http://bit.ly/1ZGtnEL
Yesterday we had the pleasure of welcoming ITV Central News to RGCL to interview PhD student Victoria Yaneva, and Elisabeth Hurley from Autism West Midlands about AUTOR.
Check out more photos here, and don’t forget to tune in to ITV Central News tonight (12th August, 2016) at 6pm.
PhD student Victoria Yaneva recently showcased the work of the University’s Research Group in Computational Linguistics (RGCL) and her own research into improving reading for people with autism at the TEDx Brum event at the Town Hall, Birmingham.