UV has a Facebook for people with autism and cognitive disabilities

The Robotics Institute of the University of Valencia (UV) and Adapt Foundation today presented a new model of online social network Facebook to rate people with autism and cognitive disabilities, according to a release from the academic institution.

The Group of Autism and Learning Difficulties in the Robotics Institute has presented in Madrid on web portal www.miradasdeapoyo.org based on the functioning of social networks like Facebook, and to those who are in a situation of exclusion or at risk of it.

One of the creators of the site, the investigator Javier Seville, said that the web allows to know how a person with support needs and thereby provide the people of his environment and to help coordination to achieve greater quality of life. "

In this way, have argued that the work focused on the person who facilitates groups at risk of exclusion can take charge of your own life, as it expands and enhances their ability to make decisions. "

Miradas Web Support is an individualized for each person at risk of exclusion, which have access only to members of their group or support network.

In this space captures the essence of a person's life, with visual tools to facilitate understanding in depth.

The portal also provides support for coordination and planning and the central person, which allows you to translate your desires and goals into concrete activities of daily life.

Thus, participants in each group may also interact with others, to share experiences, resources and knowledge about this way of working.

Www.miradasdeapoyo.org The portal is integrated with services provided by Adapt Foundation, a state nonprofit whose patronage involved in the University of Valencia.

Starting today, anyone can register, create a support group for herself or for a family and start working.

For its part, the Group of Autism and learning disabilities for ten years investigating the development and application of new technologies to improve the quality of life of people with autism and cognitive disabilities.

Today, with the collaboration of the Orange Foundation, the group working on the project Azahar, which consists of a set of applications designed for people with cognitive disabilities can use the mobile phone to communicate, train and entertain.

Source: ADN 01/07/2009

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