The number of children impacted by autism continues to grow.
This means a life time of challenges as these children strive to become
independent and self-supporting adults. Early intervention can have a
significant positive impact on the shape and richness of their future. Having
resources that helps parents and teachers as well, cope with the very real challenges
and burdens that they jointly face can also be a contributor to a family, home
and learning environment that is more calm, nurturing and progressive.
At ChartaCloud | ROBOTTECA we are committed to our passion of
breaking through to the new and ever-expanding potential that the new frontiers
of technology offer in autism breakthroughs - in research, clinical studies and
in robot-mediated behavior intervention therapies.
To advance this initiative we organized and hosted the first Interdisciplinary Workshop for Robot-mediated Behavior Intervention and brought together leading researchers and clinicians
to share their ‘state-of-the-art’ findings
and progress in applied robot based technology for autism therapies.
BOTTOM LINE WORKSHOP FINDING: The use of a robot creates communication
breakthroughs and lasting positive impact upon and for children with autism.
There are two proven, leading
options for robot mediated behavior interventions:
·
The NAO robot
from SoftBank Robotics
·
The Milo robot
from RoboKind
Using the NAO Robot offers
multiple pathway resources in support of this discipline. With the NAO robot you
can:
1.
Create your own custom robot behaviors for child
unique intervention sessions.
2.
Utilize the leading resource library of
pre-programmed intervention robot behaviors.
The NAO Robot is a proven performer in autism. NAO is
engaging and tireless in its interactions, and creates an immediate sense of
enthusiasm, connectivity, responsiveness and joy.
The Milo Robot is a robot specifically designed for autism engagement
therapies. Milo with its unique ‘facial expression’ technology allows Milo to
model facial emotions. Milo can speak, smile, laugh and walk. Milo creates immediate
engagement allowing the effective delivery of a comprehensive, evidence-based
social curriculum. In fact, students with ASD engage with Milo at rates as high
as 90% compared with only 3% engagement with humans.
Working continuously with the world’s autism technology
leaders in robotics we provide a comprehensive and ever-evolving ‘ecology of
behaviors’ that you can draw upon. With these behaviors use of these robots by
non-technical users is easily accomplished which means that the robot can also
be used in conventional classroom settings and do double duty as the
platform for STEM educational curricula.
Mike
Radice is Chairman of the Technology Advisory Board for ChartaCloud | ROBOTTECA
