Health /App Info : Are Apps the New Buzzword Within Autism Community?

An iPad and Android app for young learners with autism had a massive spike in terms of the number of downloads last week, registering a whopping 1300% increase from the week before.

Notably, the new academic season set rolling
on September 4 in a majority of school
districts in the United States. On Tuesday,
September 4, there were 17 downloads of
iLearnNEarn – seven more than what the
previous day’s count showed. However,
figures rocketed from September 5 onwards,
with 55 downloads on Wednesday, September 5; 91 on Thursday, September 6; 76 on Friday,
September 7; 89 on Saturday, September 8 and 71 on Sunday, September 9. The week’s final tally was 409, compared to a meager 31 hits during the preceding week.

iLearnNEarn is billed as a robust and
evidence-based special needs education model
comprising a series of apps and an integrated
apps library specifically built to help children
with autism develop life skills that are
essential to attain a certain level of
independence. Created by WebTeam Corporation– one of New Jersey’s premier technology companies – iLearnNEarn uses the core principles of applied behavior analysis (ABA) to help parents and teachers deliver intense intervention to autistic children. A key benefit of the program is that it comes with a built-in tracking system.

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