WHAT?

 

Can the song itsy bitsy spider detect Autism?

JJ goes on a cruise and Peter stops drinking!

Also Kirk is in Edinburgh at the Fringe festival.

Kirk is building a house in Ecuador for a boy with Autism.

Shout put Chris Franklin the bloke from Australia. 

Peter is going to a family reunion.  

This week we build a house for a boy with autism.  This family is a single mom, 7 children.  Four boys and three girls.  One of the boys  is severely autistic, has ms, and epilepsy .  We are going to build this family a house!  You can get involved.  ALL OF YOUR AUGUST PATREON DONATIONS GO TO BUILD THIS HOUSE!

 

Love you guys.

 

 

 

Tools to autism stress and your brain fingerprint.

Graham's telling us about traveling to Philly.

This week we talk about Fathers days and Peter calls in.

 

 

JJ's computer is almost toast, Graham is on the high see, and we have an interview.

 

This week we interview Andreas Forsland the CEO of a Company called Cognixion.

The app is Speakprose.

It will be available in the Apple App Store soon.

http://www.cognixion.com/speakprose/

 

FAQ:

It's free to download and use all the basic conversational features including:

- Academy - a group of chatbots that simulate different real world social scenarios for practicing communication using Speakprose

- Basics - a super intuitive way to assemble sentences with tiles

- Gestures - ability to speak quickly using pre-programmed swipe gestures

- Custom - ability to customize your gesture phrases

- Profile - ability to track communication performance (words per day, trending over time)

 

 

This week Kirk travels to WWDC for interviews:

 

What’s new from Apple - Sarah Herrlinger, director of accessibility programs at Apple - Sarah shares the latest accessibility tech features available to the ASD community. - Discussion about why Apple is so focused on accessibility. - Insight on the importance of designing products for users of all abilities.   App Development for the Autism Community - David Niemeijer, CEO of AssistiveWare (maker of Proloquo2Go) - In addition to being a great app developer, David has also become a thought leader in terms of inclusion around Autism and giving a great voice to Autistic adults, etc.  - How AssistiveWare is impacting families - Ways AssistiveWare goes about developing apps; how do they incorporate perspective from the Autism community. - Ways ACC is changing communication and engagement - Possibly a quick demo / show-and-tell of how app works   John Ciocca, app developer for MyVoice https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/myvoice-tap-or-type-to-talk/id1111359925?mt=8 and youBelong https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/youbelong/id1209864878?mt=8     About WWDC Below is how Wikipedia describes WWDC. Think of the event as essentially the Super Bowl for apps.   The Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is a conference held annually in California by Apple Inc., primarily in San Jose, but also in Silicon Valley (WWDC was held in San Francisco from 2003 to 2016). The event is used by Apple to showcase its new software and technologies for software developers. Attendees can participate in hands-on labs with Apple engineers, and in-depth sessions covering a wide variety of topics. Until 2007, the number of attendees varied between 2,000 and 4,200; however, during WWDC 2007, Steve Jobs noted that there were more than 5,000 attendees. The WWDC events held from 2008 to 2015 were capped, and sold out at 5,000 attendees (5,200 including special attendees).