A while back, our friends at industrial-design blog Core77 held a design challenge with Autism Speaks called Autism Connects, with the goal of spurring innovative product designs "to assist individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder in ...READ»
Thanks to Hollywood, lots of folks think of autism spectrum disorder as Dustin Hoffman counting matches. That’s, of course, a gross simplification of a broad, complex, and deeply mysterious set of psychological conditions. Here to ...READ»
Movia Robotics CEO Gifford, and Bhat, an assistant professor of kinesiology at the University of Connecticut, use robots to help autistic children develop social and physical skills.READ»
At this year's Pop Conference, Tim Quirk delivered a speech on the history of the Walkman, and how it informed our personal listening behavior up to the modern day. Just remember: home taping is killing music.READ»
Teaching a child with autism can be an exercise in frustration--for both teacher and child. But designers at the Boston office of the design firm Continuum have developed a teaching aid--still in the concept stage--that could go a ...READ»