How an App Offers Aid for Autism by Allowing Early Diagnosis

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In present days, there are few people who don’t know what the autism is. Autism is one of those neurological disorders, which are listed as the incurable neuro-developmental disorders.

People generally know the autism symptoms:

Autism or ASD (Autism Spectrum Disorders) comes with a number of the following disabilities.

  • Disability with verbal communication

  • Language disability

  • Stereotyped behavior

  • Intellectual disability

  • Cognitive disability

  • Motor skill disorder

etc.

What people still need to be aware of:

People are more or less aware of these symptoms, but they are still not aware of how fast the children or suspected people with autism need to be diagnosed to aid for autism. Because of strong genetic issue, with more than 500 genetic variants, autism is an incurable disorder, but a late diagnosis or no treatment can make this genetic neuropsychiatric disorder too worse to provide any aid for autism.

Ron Oberleitner said, “Diagnosis is the place to start, and with the diagnosis you, by and large, can get treatment,”

Story of a boy encouraged his parents to develop an app:

There is a story of a boy, Robby Oberleitner, son of Ron Oberleitner. The 18 months old Robby was noticed and suspected for the first time by his parents. With time when he was 2 years old, it was seen that he did not talk and had a tendency to cry and hurt himself. It was mid 1990s, when Robby was 3 years old and finally diagnosed with autism by a specialist.

Oberleitner said, “It’s a crime not to help a family get a diagnosis so they can begin early intervention for their child, if they have instincts that something is going wrong”

A thought to aid for autism:

It is said that early diagnosis on or before the age of three can be beneficial to aid people with autism by starting early intervention and treatment. Ron Oberleitner shaped this thought into reality. He had spent most of his time with doctors over Internet. He was also associated with the development of technology products and marketing of surgical instruments.

A business founded with a goal:

The Oberleitner couple then founded a business in which an app, “Behavior Imaging”, was designed with the goal to aid for autism. NODA service under the roof of Behavior Imaging, works with iPads and iPhones, which parents can easily use to aid children with autism. The app is designed to provide the NODA service, for recording and exchanging videos of the behavioral norms of children with autistic disabilities. The clinicians and health care providers from the other parts of the world can evaluate the nature of symptoms to aid for autism.

A goal to aid families with autism:

Sharon Oberleitner, mother of Robby Oberleitner, said that the goal of this Behavior Imaging application is to make the NODA Diagnosis service more affordable for parents, by encouraging different organizations. The organizations would try to provide the service to more and more families with autistic children.

Conclusion:

Technologies are going to evolve continuously. Our mobile devices with a single app, can connect both the autistic individuals and health care providers/ clinicians worldwide. The thing is, people first need to be aware of the importance of early diagnosis, then providing services to aid for autism can be easier with the help of the evolved technique.

Source: http://www.govtech.com/applications/Autism-App-Could-Help-in-Disorder-Diagnosis.html

Chloe Paltrow
Chloe Paltrow, a medical assistant. She has shared her knowledge in various websites and blogs like PsychCentral, Collective Evolution and Pick The Brain. Currently, she is studying how brain injury and brain disorders can be treated with hyperbaric chambers.