SpecialEduBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models on Knowledge, Skill, and Attitude in Language Intervention for Autistic Children

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arXiv:2609.26090v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Language is the target of most early intervention for autistic children. Because the goal and the method change from child to child, the work falls to a teacher who takes one child at a time and judges each scene as it unfolds. Artificial intelligence is now being brought to that work, yet the benchmarks that reach special education ask what a model knows rather than what it does in front of a child. Building one is not straightforward, since wheth