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Zyrobotics’ Suite of EdTech Products Personalizes Educational Support For Special Needs Kids

Education company Zyrobotics‘ founder/CTO Dr. Ayanna Howard comes from an extensive career in robotics — while at Georgia Tech, she received an NSF grant that helped her explore developing technologies to teach children with motor disabilities how to program robots. Following her findings, Howard laughed her company, bringing on CEO Dr. J. MacCalla to launch a startup focused on providing robot-building […]

Bark Monitors, But Doesn’t Helicopter, Your Child’s Digital Activity

One of the biggest disconnects between the tech-savvy children of today and their parents is the child’s need for privacy and the parent’s need to make sure their child is safe. Parents don’t want to be seen as overprotective, but negligence can have harmful results — 25 percent of teenagers report that they have experienced repeated […]

Mom Augments Reality to Spark Activity in Autistic Children

Remember those pop-up storybooks from when you were little? Nostalgia hit you hard just now, didn’t it? Well, PlayPointe is taking those pop-up storybooks and bringing them into the 21st Century with the help of augmented reality. Technology entrepreneur Sarah Jackson, inspired by her three autistic children, saw the need for more interactive, engaging books and educational […]

Robotics Entrepreneur Helps Children With Disabilities

There are over 6.4 million children with disabilities in the U.S., and even more who sustain Traumatic Brain Injuries (TBI) or experience other neurological injuries as adults. Much of the therapy interventions for these children emphasize the importance of repetition during one-on-one interactions with a trained physical or occupational therapist. Studies have shown, to ensure […]