Devices used as fitness trackers are not only great for people who are into their beauty and well-being. People with special needs can have this wearable device too, to help them generate through life.
A company named reveal was able to design a device meant for people with autism recently had its launching. The product was featured in Indiegogo.com.
At current Reveal is gathering funding though Indiegogo website. A suggested retail price cost of $350 Canadian dollars or $267 if expressed in US. However, discounts are given to those who would want to get it earlier, for only a price of $290 Canadian dollars or $222 US dollars.
As was featured in Digital Trends, it features the bodily response of a person with autism to things that could stimulate him and their anxieties as well. It will help the caregivers understand their behavior and even predict an oncoming meltdown.
The device has two parts: A hardware and a software. Inclusion for the hardware parts, includes sensors for the heart rate, skin conductivity and temperature. Once these triggers have been sensed, the data will be processed and will be turned into snapshots of what the current anxiety a person with autism has.
Each autistic person is different. Overall, many people with autism have difficulty with social interactions, communication and even relating to their own emotions. Each of them responds to different stimuli that could trigger their senses. Those environmental triggers could cause anxiety and overstimulation that could eventually lead to a meltdown. Meltdowns are emotionally draining and are even dangerous physically for a person with autism or for others around them.
Autism society has revealed that 1 out of 68 people in the US have some kind of autism. However those caregivers of anyone heavily affected by the condition will always have to take guesses on what could have caused their son or daughter's anxiety.
This is the goal of Reveal. To help caregivers predict and identify, so they can be able to act on an episode before it could even start.
