She commented: "Children with autism need a connected support system of carers, teachers and parents. Boop provides a link between all of the important people in a child's life, as well as children themselves. It will provide data that carers can use to support the child's development and provide autistic children with opportunities to develop of self-awareness, self-management and independent learning skills.
"There are growing numbers of Autism diagnoses in Northern Ireland, but awareness and support for families is growing too. Funding the next stage of development will allows us to complete Boop's development and make it available to families who are looking for new and better ways to support their child's development, with backers being the first get their hands on the finished product."
The team behind Boop believes that every child with Autism benefits when the important people in their lives connect and the software has been endorsed by a number of experts in the field.
Frank Quinn - Principle Lecturer at St Mary's Teacher Training College said: "Boop is exciting, it's imaginative, it's progressive, it allows for parents, teachers and pupils to enter a community of conversation. It reduces isolation, encourages interaction, and allows for targets to be set, achievement to be maintained, reached and developed. But more importantly allows for success to be celebrated." For more information on Boop, visit here.
