Virtual Reality has many applications, from having a virtual sensory room, visit a place beforehand and even social skills training.
Tablets are cheap, portable and intuitive. They are a great platform for game-based learning as well as for communication tools and other interventions.
Agents like Alexa or Google Assistant can be used to practice turn-based conversation and voice-based games and interaction. Pretty much your own Speech and Language AI therapist.
Wiztistic Tech is an initiative to facilitate the use of technology to help autistic people.
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
Arthur C. Clark
We believe in a future where technology based tools, interventions, and therapies are efficient, affordable and widely used. And they are improving the lives of autistic individuals and their families.
When we make new technologies work in our favor, they can be a great help, even become an intervention or a therapy for autistic individuals.
New technologies can be amazing, but can also be intimidating and confusing. So here is how we want to help
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
Alan Kay
If you wish to actively participate in a pilot, please get in touch.
A group of researchers have created Socially Assistive Robotics, which uses AI and robotics to help autistic kids to practice social tasks in the context of games. This indeed embodies all that Wiztistic.tech values. Paper: Read more…
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A specialist care facility in England is using virtual reality (VR) headsets and data mining to help children with autism to acclimatize to scenarios they are likely to encounter outside of school. The VR scenarios Read more…