Abstract
Teaching exceptional students through assistive technology is very important for the cognitive city. Due to the gradual progress of medical treatment and the educational diagnosis, the number of confirmed cases of students with Autism is rising in Taiwan. These students not only demonstrated serious deficits in social skills but also a tremendous lack of understanding of abstract and cognitive concepts. Based on the viewpoints above, the main topic of this research is using “Art Tour with Classmates” as the topic of a story to pair with the main ideas of teaching in Social Skills Curriculum Outline for Disabilities-Related Special Needs Areas in 12-year National Educational Curriculum to develop four virtual reality teaching systems. This study was conducted upon a group of ten autistic students from primary and middle school. This study aims to understand the effectiveness of virtual reality teaching methods for students’ social skills. After eight weeks of teaching, we used One-way ANOVA to analyze and explain the results of the overall teaching data. It was found that the students’ performance in overall social skills has significantly improved and they made the most progress in “The completeness of sentence-structure”. Thus we effectively improved the integrity of students’ content after the experimental teaching of virtual reality social skills. Finally, through the experimental teaching of virtual reality social skills, students will soon accommodate themselves to the new surroundings and be willing to try their activities.