The challenges in 2019
The groups are invited to develop initiatives according to the list of challenges:
Safety and security accessories
Monitoring and regulating emotions and feelings
Development of motor skills
Family, community and social integration
Education and learning
Treatment and institutions
Constitutional and bureaucratic aspects
Monitoring and regulating emotions and feelings
The difficulty: Regulation of senses and emotions
Objective: Development of accessories or applications for understanding situations, reducing flooding and calming
Examples and directions:
Smart bracelets
Apps that allow for quick sedation
Digital or tangible products that will allow self-understanding of the situation and calming
Safety and security accessories
The difficulty: lack of understanding of dangers and need for protection
Objective: Todevelop products to deal with the challenges of maintaining safety and security
Examples and directions:
Accessories promising in the knee in
Dealing with emergencies
Prevention of eruptions and running into dangerous areas
Locating the person
Development of motor skills
The difficulty: Difficulty moving in space, operating devices, writing and more due to motor difficulties
Objective: Development and improvement of motor skills along with the development of solutions to motor difficulties
Examples and directions:
Curricula for developing motor skills
Tangible or physical products for improving motor abilities
Development of supporting software and / or accessories that will address motor difficulties
Family, community and social integration
The difficulty: Difficulty connecting with the surrounding circles: parents, teachers, neighbors, peer group and more
Objective: Improving community integration and addressing the lack of knowledge about autism
Examples and directions:
Development of community social enterprises
Digital projects
Social games
Education and learning
The difficulty: Learning social skills, adjustments in the curriculum, training educational staff
Objective: Addressing educational difficulties, training education staff, developing lesson plans
Examples and directions:
Development of lesson plans, educational aids and learning games
Identify facial and body gestures
Development of body awareness
Treatment and institutions
The difficulty: Staff training in some institutions is poor, and there is even harm to the sponsors
Objective: Improving residential solutions in the community and institutions while maintaining patient dignity
Examples and directions:
Finding alternatives in the community for hospitalization
Improving the training of the treating staff
Preventing harm to sponsors and improving personal security
Providing tools for identifying signs of distress
Legal and bureaucratic information and aspects
The difficulty: Updates and additions to laws and regulations are required, along with reducing bureaucracy and making information about the rights defined in the law accessible.
Objective: Dealing with the constitutional and bureaucratic aspect related to the exercise of rights while maintaining information security and privacy
Examples and directions:
Development of information accessibility solutions
Creating bills and dealing with regulation
Addressing issues of exercise of rights