Somantics - fascinating Autism research project

During my last "job" I had the pleasure of working with a lady called Wendy Keay Bright from the then University Wales Institure in Cardiff which is now called the Cardiff Metrolpitan University.

Wendy has a very cool career path starting off with the SuperTed cartoon series. We worked on taking a research based project to a commercial release that could help the project self fund. ReacTickles uses technology with kids with Autism to help them explore self expression, communication, and motor control amongst other things.

Here's a video I made about ReacTickles back in the day that gives you the general idea...

After a recent Twitter catch up Wendy told me about a new project on the go called Somantics which uses the iPad as the input device. Fascinating stuff and am hoping to attend a development day later on this year to get up to speed.

If you are interested in the use of educational technology you should definately take a look at the following links....

You can read more about ReacTickles here...
You can read more about Somantics here...
You can read more about Wendy here...