Yesterday I anticipated that today World Autism Awareness Day is celebrated, and many entities and associations join the Autism Speaks initiative for the adoption of measures to increase awareness of this disorder among society. We will be immersed in the blue: balloons, t-shirts, lighting, and this will remind us that people with autism too they have yearnings and illusions, who want to be integrated, but also that many times have many difficulties to achieve it.
Again I bring a story from “to the moon back and forth”, and that is that Limbika has chosen this date to launch the PIKTOplus, a tool designed to facilitate communication to anyone with alterations in the emission and / or understanding of the verbal language Here you have the presentation video.
It is a touch tablet, easily transportable, comfortable size and very light. Pleasantly surprised the back tab that allows to place the tablet in an inclined position: comfort and functionality to the maximum when working. Piktoplus presents thousands of constantly growing pictograms, as well as a simple, easy and intuitive interaction. It also includes a development of specialized applications to work:
The language itself (categorization, associationism, vocabulary ...)
Behavioral patterns (time out, cause-effect relationships ...)
Grafomotricity (freckles, labyrinths ...)
Specific cognitive areas throughout the game (focus of attention, working memory, sensory-perceptual processes through sensory modalities - use of the micro, camera, vibration ...)
Functional tools around pictograms (dynamic emotion scales, segmented time sequences, automated calendar-agendas ...).
It offers endless possibilities software + hardware and the entire continent that clothes them. For example, users can choose to communicate by automating previously designed routines that can be programmed based on parameters such as the time of day, the environment where they are located or the subjects of the school The objective of this company is to develop such devices supported by new technologies, with the purpose of increasing and improving the level of personal autonomy, of those people who need it
Let's highlight some of the Most notable features of PIKTOplus:
Pictogram size and configurable communication screen size (we can create our grids to our liking, highlight a specific picto, etc.
Multiple users on a single device just by clicking on the user (especially for centers)
Natural and editable voices
Support and continuous development; grows and will be constantly updated accessible to users
You can check all the information about this product on the Limbika website. There is no doubt that this portable electronic communicator can greatly improve the daily life of people with autism, becoming a guide that helps meet some of their needs.
And for my part, before finishing this post, I would like to share this video with you, it's called the two faces of autism, and it helps us understand much better what children with autism need from all of us
