South Carolina Department Of Education Launches Three-Year Pilot Of RoboKind’s Robot & Social-Emotional Curriculum For Autism

The South Carolina Department of Education has launched a statewide, three-year pilot of RoboKind's robots4autism program, combined with a social-emotional curriculum, for elementary-age students with autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Coordinated by the state Department of Education's Special Education Department, at least two schools in fifteen school districts across the state began offering the pilot curriculum in the fall of 2017. The program currently serves more than 8,000 students in the Aiken, Anderson, Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton, Florence, Greenwood, Horry, Kershaw, Marion, Orangeburg, Pickens, Richland, Spartanburg, and Sumter school districts.

The robots4autism curriculum is a comprehension . . .