To commemorate autism month the price our app has been permanently reduced. Abaplanet is now available for only for 5,49€.

We want to go further and get closer to everyone.

The 2017-2018 school year has begun! And we are pleased to open again the oportunity to collaborate with Lovaas Foundation and its special education centres around Barcelona and Spain.

The Project “AbaPlanet Schools” was born with the aim of integrating this powerful Ipad application in the schools’ classrooms to boost the effectiveness of the language teaching amongst children with Autism Spectrum Disorders or other difficulties.

We are pleased to announce that our courses are now available again at ISEP and learning about effective applications for educating people with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Starting with a brief insight into the #Apps evolvement into the powerful tool they have become. We will review the most relevant Apps available in the market oriented towards people with ASD.

Afterwards we will learn to detect an appropriate #App, as well as to apply effective procedures when learning different skills.

Once again, we are grateful for ISEP’S and last year students’ trust, and we extend a very warm welcome to those joining us on this new edition.

Moreover, we will also teach the following coursework:

• Oral language in Autism Spectrum Disorders (taught by the Clinical Director, Víctor Rodríguez).
• New technologies applied to people with ASD (taught by Sandra Ballesta, consultant Lovaas Foundation).
• Habits of Autonomy (taught by Joan Alsina, consultant Lovaas Foundation).

Please do not hesitate to contactu us on: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Or browse our list of courses offered at ISEP : www.isep.es

After the success accumulated by iSequences over the years, the comments received, the recognition of the educational and health sector, we want to thank everybody.Therefore, today we decided to increase the accessibility to our applications, reducing the price of the distribution to 2,49$, following criteria according to our bases and our principles:

AbaPlanet, an App to learn the language, now in a training package.

This new training Package pretends to meet all the needs from parents and proffessionals in the work with ASD children, supplying all the necessary knowledge to use Applied Behavior Analysis.

What is new?

We show you a training package with explanatory videos and a detailed manual in which it is described all the different options of the app, with many examples and possibilities.

In this way, you will have the necessary training for give to parents and professionals the necessary tools, increasing so its effectiveness in the child´s teaching; turning this App in a easy and indispensable means for the daily working with children with special needs.

Planeta Imaginario fundation was at TrasTEA congress in Madrid last february 9th and 10th at Madrid University, presenting a poster about the implementation of AbaPlanet in Special needs classrooms or/and intensive treatment.

The aim of this poster was explaining the methodology implemented during 2016 which included trainings directed to professionals in different Special Needs Schools and centres specialized on ASD in different areas, such as using apps, monitoring cases and questions’ solutions, register of achieved units together with testing the learning generalization and maintenance of it as well as analysis results and discussion of it.  

See below a brief summary of this results: 

Actually the Information and Comunication technologies (known as TIC) have been opened their way, bit by bit, in every areas of our diary life like the leisure, the education and obviously the health. The medical progress until a few years ago was limitated to direct manegement of healthcare professionals, in our time, the arrival of phone apps has allowed bring closer this progress in health to the current user.

Into what is known as mHeatlh, or mobile health, has been developed a field of research and development of mobile apps that allow the user acces to sanitary guides, learn helthy habits, know and control different symptom, and help, among other things, the tracing and compromise of the patient with the therapy.

Over 40.000 sanitary apps are at present available in Apple’s market, all of them created from the need of patient and professional to omptimize means, time, share expiriences and have clearest and faster information as is possible. All apps, that do‘nt stop growing in number and develop themselves, has the same target: offer the medical assitance who need it in far places.

But, why this growing in apps related with health? The answer is in four essential codes:

1. They give more power to the patient because they become in active parts of every medical process, on wich they can consult the provided information in every moment, make comparisons, thoughts…etc. That allow further customization of the process, where the patient receives direct and useful information of what it cares to him: the health.
2. Change of habits in that the patient has the opotunity of control and change that behaviours of his diary life that can help his health condition. For that, they take as a refference the system of levels and achievement points from the videogames, to help to foment a higher implication and motivation by the user.
3. Extraordinary change on the relationship doctor-patient, because it is provided the shipping of comunication bidirectionally, across the data wich are visual and clear. On the other hand that fact also streamlined the sanitary management of medical appoinments and the acces to the relevant information, getting better globaly the assitance quality.
4. Data storage a lot of personalized, faster and easy to consult.
5. Easy access to sanitary resources in every place of the planet, making easier the arrival of medical assitance in every time and place, supplying the architectural or economical barriers, with the access to a Tablet o Smartphone.

With everything explained above, it is not surprising that the apps related with health be the third category with higher growth, just after the games and utilities, where the biggest percentage of use is in prevention or promote healthy lifestyles ( feeding, physical activity, sleep, relax, etc.)

Because of the combination of that advantages is obvious the need of maximize the use of that kind of apps in the health system, and considered too by the expert group who joined in the XXII Meeting of Health Technology Sector, they think that the actual challenge of TICs in the sanitary field is achieve that the possibilities that they provide, help to get better the life quallity, and decrease the imbalances and inequalities in the access to health services.

For that Yuri Quintana, professor of Medicine in Harvard University, and one of the most defenders of this change, has shown how the use of the videogames can help the people in this appearance. For this purpose he has created Serious Games for Health, a course where he teaches to the health and technology professionals the benefits that the videogames can give the humanity, beyond the entertaiment.

That technology, that according Quintana provides new knowledge and improve habits and behaviours, also helps to gather information more accurate about that, and has been extolled by Harvard Medical School professors and by the Escuela de Nuevas Tecnologías de la Universidad de Barcelona.

Having as reference the dynamics of a video game typical of children, were to arrange an history, Fundación Planeta Imaginario  was developed iSequences  which has as its basis this idea to teach autonomous habits, the dynamic of everyday situations and the emotions in children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders or ASD. With these same target population it had another more complex application, Abaplanet, which try to transfer the basics of a personal and specialized assistance to the home through the use of the iPad

It is undeniable the utility of mobile techonolgy to help us to care our health and treat any disease in a dinamic way and connected to the lifestyle and the current needs, alowing an update and adequacy on time and place that move virtually the consultation to the house, the coffeshop o the supermarket. Wherever we are the health is always a reason of interest and now we have the solution so close to us.

References:

1. http://tecno.americaeconomia.com/resenas/los-4-mejores-videojuegos-para-cuidar-tu-salud
2. http://www.seriousgamesforhealth.com/es/#informacion-general
3. http://www.fundaciontecnologiaysalud.es/noticias/single/364
4. http://www.theappdate.es/static/media/uploads/2014/03/Informe-TAD-50-Mejores-Apps-de-Salud.pdf

iSequences has been successful in many countries so therefore we have received requests for the translation into different languages such as Danish, Portuguese, Swedish, Basque, etc. Focusing our efforts in this direction, and with the special collaboration of IT Living Lab, we have recently introduced iSekvenser, the Danish version.