The PixTalk Communication System: a Smart-phone Application and a Companion
  Website for the Improvement of the Communication Skills of Children with
  Autism 
From: mHealth Summit - 10/29-30/2009
By: Gondy Leroy and Gianluca DeLeo

Teachers play an important role in the effort to increase the communication
skills of children with autism and determine the required teaching style.
However, they do not have any tools that allow them to share ideas, data, and
information, and provide objective feedback on communicative behavior of
children with autism. We are developing a communication system for severe
autistic children using SmartPhones to enable on-the-go communication. The
project for which we are seeking support will leverage our current research
and develop and test the support environment that lets teachers, therapist
and parents evaluate longitudinal communication data from the SmartPhones for
individual children and for groups of children, discuss findings, and
complement this data with other child-specific data using modern data
analysis and data mining tools. If successful, this project will help
teachers in their daily activities and that will also support and encourage
integration of children with autism in our society. The project will make
contributions in the field of special education and software development for
users with special needs. 

Source:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/mhealth2009/presenters.aspx#leroy

Links:
Research abstract
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/events/mhealth2009/lerouge-ma-presentation.docx

Case study
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/collaboration/focus/health/smartphone_autism_comm.aspx

Gondy Leroy
http://web.cgu.edu/faculty/leroy/

PixTalk – Installation and User Guide
http://communicationautism.com/data/pixtalk_installation_guide.pdf

PixTalk Communication Software
http://www.communicationautism.com/index.php?pag=downloads

Microsoft releasing Windows Mobile software for World Autism Awareness Day
http://wmpoweruser.com/?p=4005