Google Glass app to help autistic kids

A Massachusetts-based start-up called Brain Power is developing Google Glass

app to help autistic kids learn social and communication skills.
The app will also provide feedback to care-givers on how to help autistic children
cope with their life
Called the Empowered Brain Suite for Autism, The app encourages kids to
interact with their parents and make eye contact by presenting exercises like a
game. Tech crunch reported.
According to neuroscientist Ned T. Sahin, who developed the app, Google Glass
has an advantage because it keeps children with autism connected to their
families and the real world.
The app has social engagement module monitors that assess how a child
engaged with his or her parents. Specifically if they are looking at their parents
face and eys.
Brain power software helps kids interpret their family members expressions
through a series of games and exercises.
Children will eventually be able to receive personalised language and
conversation coaching through the app.
According to Sahin, Google Glass is ideal for helping kids with autism because it
has an accelerometer chip that enables head gestures which Brain Power uses to
track when kids look or dont look at their parents.
Brain power has focused its development on children with moderate to highfunctioning autism and will extend apps capabilities to other kids as well, the
report said.

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North Koreas internet links have been restored, but its not clear how stable they
are, the US-based internet monitoring company Dyn said on Tuesday.
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