Awesome Autism Tech

A curated list of awesome technologies related to Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD)¹.

📑 Contents

• News
• Incubators
• Hackathons
• Multidisciplinary
• Data Collection
• Practice Management
• Personalized Plans
• Collaboration
• Resource Libraries
• Individual Apps
• AR / VR
• Detection / Treatment
• Open Source

📰 News

Current events and headlines

• The Transmitter - Formerly SpectrumNews.org, this is a new publication for the neuroscience community.

🌱 Incubators

For startups seeking mentorship and funding

• Autism Angels Group - Non-profit; portfolio / investments in FloreoVR and LiftEd (acquired by CentralReach).
• Multiple - Non-profit with 12-week accelerator and lab-to-market programs.
• Microsoft Accessibility Grant - Funding, mentoring and Azure compute credits with developer support.
• Autistica - The UK's leading autism research charity with research projects and funding.
• SFARI - Simons Foundation Autism Research Initiative (SFARI) research & grant programs.
• HealthTech Capital - Invest and mentor "HealthTech" startups with angels, healthcare, venture and corporate investors.

💻 Hackathons

Collaborative events for kicking out code

• FSI Hackathon for Autism - Financial Services Industry (FSI) devs creating FOSS projects with Microsoft tech.

🗼 Multidisciplinary

Companies that provide an ecosystem of software solutions covering multiple therapies

• CentralReach - Practice + revenue cycle management, clinical solutions, assessments, staff development.
• Therapy Brands - Two products for ABA and one product for PT / OT / Speech therapies.
• Artemis ABA - Practice management, EMR software, managed billing services and more.

📊 Data Collection

Trial, targets, task analysis and more during therapy sessions

• SpectrumAi - Electronic health record (EHR) and network performance for ABA.
• Hi Rasmus - API, SSO; founded by a tech entrepreneur inspired by his child diagnosed with ASD.
• Motivity - Reports data collected in real-time.

📒 Practice Management

HIPAA-compliance, appointment scheduling, invoicing and more for behavioral health service providers

• ABA Building Blocks - Consulting and business services for M&A, turnkey solutions and more.
• Lumary - Workflow optimizations; built on Salesforce.
• Finny Health - YCombinator Empowering Autism Care Providers to Go Independent.
• Hippo Scribe - YCombinator AI assisted documentation for PT/OT/SLP

👫 Personalized Plans

Identify learning opportunities and parenting techniques

• Tilly - Dedicated mobile app for tracking child's progress, messaging and scheduling.
• Forta Health - Raised $55 Million Series A to continue AI-enabled ABA therapy and clinical algorithms.
• Attend Behavior - Learning content, videos and custom support plans in a dedicated mobile app.

👯 Collaboration

Tools caregivers and providers use together

• Pletly - A suite of apps where everyone shares media & observations in a private social network.
• Joon Health - YCombinator All-in-one parent training and engagement platform for BCBAs.

📜 Resource Libraries

Interactive activities built by educational professionals that can be used during sessions

• Boom Cards - Learning resources for fast and live play.
• Everyday Speech - Social communication cirriculum and social-emotional learning by SLPs.
• LessonPix - Custom materials for learning, communication and behavior.
• TPT - Marketplace for PreK-12 resources including Sppech therapy and Social emotional.
• Pink Cat Games - Used by SLPs and special education teachers to motivate students to practice skills.

📱 Individual Apps

Online and mobile apps made by indie devs that bring enjoyment

• Token Board - A free online and mobile-friendly token board with different shapes & colors.
• Visual Countdown Timer - iOS app developed by a parent that uses fun pictures to perform a task quickly.
• Accessible Chef - A collection of free visual recipes that makes use of task analysis.

👓 AR / VR

Augmented Reality (AR) / Virtual Reality (VR) wearables

• Floreo - FDA breakthrough designated device for providing VR therapy to the neurodiverse.
• SocialWise VR - On-Demand VR social skills curriculum for neurodivergent young adults.
• JelikaLite - Clinical stage therapeutic wearable device for reducing a child's autism symptoms.
• Arrows - Virtual social coach using Generative AI.
• MOVIA Robotics - Robot-Assisted Instruction (RAI) for Autism & other special needs.

🔍 Detection / Treatment

Aids for the detection, diagnosis and treatment of ASD

• EarliTec - FDA-authorized tool that uses AI to track eye movements for diagnosis / assessment.
• Autism Discovery and Treatment Foundation - Researching predictive biomarkers of autism.
• Gut-Brain Axis Therapeutics, Inc. - Microbiota Transplant Therapy (MTT) for ASD patients (pre-FDA).
• Harkla - Specializing in products for special needs children.

⛪ Open Source

Repositories for code

• therapy-aid-tool - Monitor patient's progress in autism therapies using computer vision.
• cboard - Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) system with text-to-speech for the browser.
• SincNet-for-Autism-EEG-based-Emotion-Recognition - EEG-based emotion recognition from ASD patients.
• AsTeRICS Grid - An adaptable grid-based application designed for versatile use cases, including Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC), Smart Home control, and multimedia playback as a web radio or YouTube player.

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✍️ Authors

• @hbcondo - idea & initial work

🙌 Acknowledgements

• generator-awesome-list

Footnotes

1. https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/facts.html ↩