The objective of the study is to track the progression of the scientific literature on autism and
the technology applied to this disorder. A bibliometric methodology has been used, based on a co-word
analysis. The Web of Science database was chosen to perform the analysis of the literature. A unit
of analysis of 1048 publications was configured. SciMAT software was used mainly for document
analysis. The results indicate that the first studies appeared in 1992, but it was not until 2009 that the
research volume increased considerably. The area of knowledge where these studies were compiled
was rehabilitation, which marks the truly therapeutic nature of this type of study. One of the authors
with the most studies, as well as the most relevant research, was Sarkar, N. Manuscripts were usually
research articles written in English. It could be concluded that research in this field of study focused
mainly on interventions carried out through the use of technological resources, with students or young
people who present with ASD. This line of research, although not the only one, was the most relevant
and the one that had aroused the most interest among the scientific community.
