autism
Aeir Talk Gives A Father’s Autistic Kids A Voice
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We met Joe Hill in Norfolk, Virginia last week. He had a story to tell us. He has two autistic sons who have had trouble communicating and he noticed that the world of tools for autism often overlooked a few things – aesthetics, usability, and customization, to name three. Instead...
Labor Of Love: Developer Creates iPad App To Help His Autistic Brother
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When Jonathan Izak graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, he decided to put his new degree in Computer Science to very good use. In an effort to help his 10-year old autistic brother Oriel communicate and learn new tasks, he developed a new iPad app called Autismate to...
Orangutans at Miami zoo communicating with iPads
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This slideshow requires JavaScript. According to a report from AssociatedPress, orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island zoo are taking a liking to Apple’s iPad in a new program that has six of them communicating with the device: The software was originally designed for humans with autism and the screen displays pictures...
Speech-impaired kids get a voice with Proloquo2go iOS app
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A communication assistance app for those who have difficulty speaking is getting an important update Wednesday: It now has real children’s voices that will play when a picture, phrase or word is tapped on screen. Proloquo2go, an iOS app has been used for several years by both adults and children...
WTF is this doing in the science section? The zoology of comment | David Steele
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I've counted seven species of online commenter. Please leave further suggestions or vent your spleen belowThis is the most ludicrous, supposedly science article I have ever read on this so-called subject. This article is hilarious and raises interesting points. Regarding the first point, at least he got one thing right....
Daily Report: A Device to Read Your Thoughts
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The physicist Stephen Hawking is trying out a device the size of a matchbox that aims to allow him to communicate by merely thinking, David Ewing Duncan reports in Tuesday's New York Times. The iBrain is part of a new generation of devices and algorithms intended to monitor and diagnose...
App Store enigma: the patent holder, the developer, and the voiceless child
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The Unity language implemented on a Prentke Romich AAC device Prentke Romich Company Few apps available for the iPad sell for $300—and even fewer are considered a bargain at the price. But "Speak for Yourself" turned consumer-grade tablets into sophisticated Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices for those struggling...
Brain scans may detect autism in babies and toddlers
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One study examines the brain's organization of white matter, while another measures its electrical activity -- in both cases, to detect autism. [Read more]...
iPads are so user friendly, apes use them to communicate
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Two 8-year-old twin orangutans at Miami’s Jungle Island zoo, draw, play games and communicate using an iPad tablet. The park is one of several zoos experimenting with the interaction of apes and computers, allowing six orangutans to use Apple’s tablet to communicate as part of a mental stimulus program,...
Startup Spotlight: Spiral Genetics offers software to help scientists analyze DNA
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DNA analysis allows scientists to dig deep into one’s genetic makeup, discovering if an individual is predisposed to a certain disorder or disease. While advances around DNA analysis have allowed scientists to more quickly analyze one’s DNA, a Seattle startup by the name of Spiral Genetics believes it can do it even...
By 2016, 70M families will keep tabs on each other with GPS
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If you thought GPS in your phone was only useful for finding the closest Starbucks, think again. A growing number of North American and European households are using GPS and cellular location services to keep track of their family members. Berg Insight forecasts that the number of active users of...
Curate Personal Data Online So You Stop Seeing Stupid Ads
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Consumers are beginning to accept that their data is being tracked, but not all data is useful to advertisers. For them, the issue is ads that miss the mark. It's the difference between Reebok saying, "Hey, I noticed you live near a landfill, looking for sneakers?" or getting to the point: "I...
Proloquo2Go App Gives Children With Speech Impairments a Voice
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For many of us, tech gadgets like smartphones and tablets are a source of entertainment, a way to check email and social networks, maybe even make a phone call or two. But for others, they’re helping to do much more than that. Proloquo2Go is an iOS app that gives those...
Soon, the iBrain May Read Your Thoughts
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The iBrain (neurovigil.com) It's probably obvious, but we feel the need to say this: every damned thing about famed physicist Stephen Hawking is inspirational. We cannot read an article about him and not feel emotionally impacted by the fact that he is 70 years old, suffering from Lou Gherig's disease,...
Widespread vaccine exemptions are messing with herd immunity
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NOAA Vaccines have been one of the most important public health interventions ever developed. As a new study notes, past analyses have estimated that the childhood immunization schedule prevents 42,000 deaths and 20 million cases of disease—and that's only for the kids born in a single year. The estimated...
MIT researchers teach computers to recognize your smile, frustration
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Wipe that insincere, two-faced grin off your face -- your computer knows you're full of it. Or at least it will once it gets a load of MIT's research on classifying frustration, delight and facial expressions. By teaching a computer how to differentiate between involuntary smiles of frustration and...
New autism studies find new mutations, many genes behind the disorder
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Autism clearly has a genetic component, since if one half of a set of identical twins suffers from the disorder, the other generally does as well. But there are also a high number of cases where it seems to appear spontaneously, with affected children being born in families with...
Dundee student designs Passive Play toy cube to stimulate parents interaction with autistic children
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A University of Dundee scholar has been working on a wonderful tool that aims to evoke the emotional connection between autistic children and their parents. While we've seen novelties like the My Keepon in the past, any addition to the cause is always a pleasant one, and the Passive...
Dundee student designs Passive Play toy cube to stimulate parents interaction with autistic children
Emotion Measurement Platform Affectiva Wins $500K NSF Grant
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Affectiva, a startup that tries to measure the emotional response people have to ads and brands, just announced that it has a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation. The company spun out of MIT’s Media Lab. This is its second NSF grant — in January 2011, it won another...
30 Best iPhone and iPad apps this week
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Atlas by Collins, Me Books, Signed Stories, Nigella Lawson, Tunigo Play, Toca Tailor, Rara and moreActually, "this fortnight" would be more accurate: Last week's planned top iOS apps post went missing due to travel, so it's a bumper crop of 30 this week to make amends.As ever, the list doesn't...
Parents Herald Rise in Apps to Help Treat Autism but Proof of Therapeutic Benefits Is Lacking
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Indiana high school team raises money for robot that will interact with autistic children
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A high school robotics team from Kokomo, Indiana in the United States is using Indiegogo to raise money for a robot that will interact with autistic children. The team, called CyberTooth, will build the disability aid they’ve named AutiBot once they’ve raised $5,000. At the time of this writing, they...
MiniManuscript is launching to take the pain out of academic reading lists
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The academic year in the UK is well under way, and doubtless students are starting to get a sense of the amount of reading they will need to complete in order to write their papers. For those who have a reading list as long as both arms, you might be...
Dr Dillner's health dilemmas: Should men become fathers before they are 40?
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New research warns that older fathers may pass on mutations to their offspring. So does that mean men should get on with parenting at an earlier age?Traditionally, it was the woman's age that was thought to be most important in determining whether a couple have a healthy baby. But a...
Thinking tech for a 14 year old with autism
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What I think I know about autism. « Levite Chronicles
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