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  <Title>I A software for language education and rehabilitation of autistic-like children</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> In this paper, we have presented EREL, a language education and rehabilitation system for autistic children, developed from the generic ILLICO system.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> This software fully uses the natural language processing techniques provided by ILLICO, and in particular the principles of modularity and guided composition. We have shown why guided composition is especially relevant to the development of communication aids, and how the use of ILLICO makes it possible to develop software which can help users to improve their language and cognitive skills. More particularly, we have detailed through an example how the modularity of ILLICO allows us to define several language rehabilitation exercises which have different levels of difficulty from a linguistic and cognitive point of view. The development phase of EREL has shown that the particularities underlying this type of applications can easily be incorporated inside ILLICO. null The system is intented to be evaluated through the clinical and cognitive evolution of the children, first by medical personnel who will use standard evaluation methods, and also by the families, who will be able to daily test the appropriateness of the system for their children. Until now, it has not been possible to carry out a several months evaluation of the expected therapeutic effects on the population: presently, a medical team just begins to use a prototype of the system with autistic-like and psychotic children.</Paragraph>
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