Technology and the iron will of a parent to understand their child with autism four years of age are the germ of an illustrative software images, pictograms or icons and sounds, adaptable to the elderly and disabled people with problems communication, which already has more than 1,800 users.
is a very easy to use program called "Ablah" recently made available to the public, which is operative in both ipad, as in iphone and ipod, and that is directed to a personal communicator citizens with some type of language impairment or communication difficulties.
This has been explained to Efe its creator, Juan Carlos González Montesinos, a computer salesman by profession, low income, who's passionate desire to communicate not only with his son Darius, but with his mother, suffering from a neurodegenerative disease, encouraged him to contact computer experts to realize your project and break the silence with their loved ones.
Software, registered in the name of this father and son "courage" that is being used "successfully" in the association of autism Angel Rivière de Marbella, Malaga, conforms not only to the needs of people with autism or Parkinson's and Alzheimer's patients but also those with limitations in their ability to speak due to accidents or other concerns.
For 30 euros
The program, which is giving "very successful" among educators of children with autism and other professionals, and that in its short career has already received a prize , is available worldwide through Apple App Store at a symbolic price of 30 euros.
On 2 April, coinciding with World Autism Day, the downloads were free to facilitate their access to people with fewer resources and families with autism.
How It Works:
The software features various galleries for storing images and words (oral and written) for thematic classification and archiving according to user needs, who can easily modify content, screen brightness, sound, etc.
The owner of the program explained to Efe that it takes more than an iphone or any other technological device with the addition of this software to learn if a child with autism to eat an apple or an orange if you prefer to play with a ball or a car, or want to go outside or watch television.
According to research, any child with autism can handle high-speed smoothly and technological devices, the advantages are that multiply the beneficial effects of conventional therapies dealing with autism, traditionally based on stickers or images on paper.
Thanks to new technologies, which require only slight finger pass by the display device to display an image or another, children are able to maintain focus on a specific activity during periods of longer lasting, as the owner of the software.
also using this program avoids many "tantrums" to children with communication problems, because it helps them to better accept a change of activity at a given time.
This software anticipates the child's knowledge of a plan of activities so the parent can show by a pool iphone, so that the child understands that swimming is the next task to perform, or can show the home of friends, to explain that there will visit.
For older people with full mental capacity but to voice problems or speak, the program offers the possibility of complete sentences that encourage communication, both written and oral formats.
Original source: http://www.adn.es
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