The children who have disability in their social interaction and communication are categorized as children with autism. Often autistic children are facing challenges in independent living causing many concerns toward teaching and learning for the autistic children. As a result, therapists and educators of autistic children are facing distress when teaching the autistic children as it is harder to retain their attention during the learning process. Hence, there are some researchers suggest robotic approach as clinical tool to assist therapist especially teachers in teaching session with autistic children. Therefore, this research is focusing on developing a robot to teach the basic Jawi modules to the autistic children. The objective of this paper is twofold, presenting: (1) the ways Jawi Alphabot is programmed to perform teaching, and 2) the attentive assessment results that shows the effectiveness of robotics intervention in learning Jawi among the autistics. Besides, a module for the teacher and the children is also available as a guideline for them to implement this robotic learning process. During the experimental design testing, the autistic children are divided into two groups (i.e. control group and experimental group) and were given different intervention in learning Jawi. The intervention in learning Jawi are: 1) traditional method and 2) robotics intervention method. The results are discussed with evidences that highlights how robotics intervention could alleviate attentiveness in learning among the autistic children. � 2019, World Academy of Research in Science and Engineering. All rights reserved.

Cerebral Palsy is a common neurodevelopmental condition. The condition may present itself in many different kinds of classification. Cerebral Palsy is always showing many deficits such as mental retardation, speech, language and motor problems. This research was inspired from Elisya, a nine-year-old girl with Cerebral Palsy since born with an auditory and speech disorder including motor problem that affects her mobility. Her senses and brain do not fully coordinate and this creates a communication issue between Elisya and her parents. The aim of this research is to provide a mean for children with Cerebral Palsy who can’t speak to communicate significantly with their parents and carers without using any sign language. There are plenty of assistive tools in the market and this includes the Augmentative and Alternative Communication devices for people with speech disorders. However, there is no app found in Malay language and the content can’t be personalized. Make Me Speak is an Augmentative and Alternative Communication tool using mobile technology which is developed to help people with Cerebral Palsy to communicate with people around them. Make Me Speak is not just for Cerebral Palsy community but for anyone with speech disorder. It is developed in dual language – Malay and English with a personalized content. React Native mobile development platform is used to create the app. React Native helps in building cross platform mobile apps. Hence, it saves time and cost to build mobile apps on multiple platforms. Usability test was done on Elisya and it was found that she is able to manage the app and chose the right buttons to express her needs. This research is in line with the social innovation initiative for people with disabilities as described in the Eleventh Malaysia Plan (RMK-11).