Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a developmental disorder that affects communication and behaviour. Although autism can be diagnosed at any age, it is said to be a “developmental disorder” because symptoms generally appear in the first two years of life. There is no cure for autism, but there are an incredible range of treatments and therapies available for every price point, philosophy, and preference. Some are carefully researched; others are fly-by-night; still others are somewhere in between. There are tremendous disagreements about which treatments are most effective, most appropriate, most humane, most respectful, and safest.
The costs associated with Autism are immense.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports autism’s estimated prevalence among the US nation’s children, based on an analysis of 2014 medical records to be 1 in 59 children, up from 1 in 68 two years previous. The number of people with ASD is estimated at 3,540,909 in the U.S. and 604,824 in the U.K. Assuming 40 percent of those with ASD also have an ID, the aggregate national cost of supporting children with ASD was estimated at $61 billion per year in the US, and $4.5 billion per year in the UK.
The ALL technology is an evolving solution to communication deficits associated with autism and related conditions. In this, the solution is designed to address a series of issues impeding the acquisition of generalizable language. It is a fundamental attribute of the ALL intervention to provide on point and real time individualised child data. This enables a mapping of the child cognition that is rich thus enabling a fact-based intervention strategy. Extensive research into the autism condition indicates visual reasoning as the primary means of cognition. Our research through extensive multi-geography trials involving some 500 families, indicates that this cognition can be accessed through visually rich animation from studios such as Disney Pixar.
The ALL system achieves this by isolating thousands of individual concepts in context from Disney Pixar (or other studio) features. These are converted into visual questions comparing a stimulus question to other concepts drawn from the child’s pervading eco system. This process combined with quantitative recording of decision path, time taken, typed response among other factors are extensively. This provides an unprecedented profile of the child’s visual reasoning.
ALL language development: The ALL system possesses a remarkable assessment capability providing unprecedented insight into the needs of the autistic child. This assessment data is intended to be subsumed into ALL’s computer systems in the cloud where it is processed. It is then intended to be individualized into visual stimulus to the child anywhere there is an internet connection. In doing this the system addresses the core deficit of the autistic child, that is, the development of rich and age appropriate visual concepts.
