LuxAI is excited to announce a new 1.8M EUR investment on validating the clinical effectiveness of QTrobot for at-home intervention of young children on the autism spectrum. In partnership with the Luxembourg Institute of Health, this project focuses on a long-term randomized clinical trial for evaluation of the outcome of the children receiving help from […]
In this testimonial, Rachel Ricci and her family share their experience of one year of using the in-home, educational autism robot QTrobot, with their son Caden. Through Rachel’s family’s experiences, we dive into how an in-home robot helps parents support their children on the autism spectrum gain new life skills.
Stereotypical behaviours and stimming is very common for people on the autism spectrum. If you are a parent of a child with autism, probably you have seen your child showing some behaviours like hand flapping, rocking, or rubbing their hands. In this blog post, we discuss the most important things you need to know about […]
Preeti has been using QTrobot for approximately 10 months with her son. How has it been to integrate QTrobot in daily routines? How does QTrobot help in learning? Would you recommend QTrobot to other families of children with autism? Read Preeti’s experiences about how QTrobot has become the new fun way of at-home learning for […]
Parenting a child with autism is often not an easy task. Parents of children with autism need to fight many battles each day to make sure their child is receiving the care they need for their development and growth. A robot for at-home education can support parents in many ways to provide an effective at-home […]
Many children with autism spectrum conditions (ASC) struggle with the social aspect of traditional teaching. Therefore, special education schools and institutions are looking for new ways to address teaching. Innovative technology such as robots are increasing in demand for helping learners with autism or other special educational needs. Bridge College was looking for new assistive […]
– an emotional success story! Emily is a mom of three. Her youngest daughter Kira is 12 years old and has autism. QTrobot has been part of Emily’s family for soon 9 months, helping her daughter Kira in learning. This is the emotional story of Emily, about how finding QTrobot changed the life of her […]
It is important for all school-age children to know about community helpers, their roles and how they help in various emergencies or situations. Also, children need to have an idea about how to interact with each of the workers, so they are prepared to get help from them. In this blog post we show you […]
Researchers have found that, like most children, also children with autism love playing with robots. Robots can deliver predictable responses over and over. They repeat things and behave in a consistent way, which are highly important to helping children with autism learn better. These are only a few reasons to why children with autism often […]
How to Help Children With Autism Handle Their Emotions; Tips on Supporting Emotional Regulation Many children with autism struggle with managing their feelings and they have difficulty to handle emotions in various situations. This can be seen in both high-functioning and low-functioning autistic children, and even adults. Practicing self-regulation skills and helping children to learn […]
Many of us have witnessed a child having a tantrum in public places. It is easy to judge children and their parents for such behaviors. However, not many of us would think about autism spectrum disorder (ASD) at those times. The explosion of anger and emotions accompanied with screams and other disruptive behaviors can be […]
Children with autism can have challenges in social skills and, in particular, using language for social interaction. People familiar with children with ASD know that it’s often easier to teach kids to use language for requesting than to use language for other types of communication, such as speaking about likes and dislikes or past events. […]
“We have been using QTrobot for the last 7 months to teach new skills to our children at home and we use it pretty much every day. Depending on the day and how our sons feel we use it for 10 minutes or more for each of the boys. My kids have a short attention […]
The early years of a child’s life are crucial in development. The brain is constantly growing and changing, allowing new skills to be learned through contact with the child’s environment. In the early years, a child’s brain creates many simple neural circuits which over time are refined into more complex, specialized pathways. Autism spectrum disorder […]
Children with autism often have difficulty in understanding the emotional status of others and often structured activities for teaching emotion understanding is very important. Not being able to understand emotions and not being able to react to emotions in others and in themselves, is one of the main causes of distress for people with autism. […]
“QTrobot for autism is our own personal at-home robot tutor and in the past 6 months, we have been using it every night to do a little bit of learning in a consistent way. My children respond very well to QTrobot and they are certainly more motivated to respond to QT asking them than me […]
Recognizing facial expressions of emotions is critical for creating connections and social interaction in early life. Recognizing emotions and expressions of others is one of the basic skills allowing us to understand people’s intentions and mind status and has an important role in enabling us to interact with people around us. In this blog we […]
“When we first decided to get an educational robot, we were unsure what to expect, but now we are thrilled we decided to get QT. We are able to help our son all year round. Our son has acquired new knowledge and has developed new skills. It was QT who showed him how to wave hi, which we could not get […]
Teaching new vocabulary including spatial prepositions to children with autism requires structured activities. In this blog you can find some tips and step by step activities you can use to help your child practice and learn the vocabulary related to spatial prepositions! Based on CDC’s developmental milestones, a typically developing child should be able to […]
QTrobot helped my son to finally grasp what each emotion means and how each of them is expressed. He also started to notice when he was feeling an emotion. For example, now he often tells me that he feels green, that means everything is alright! This parent testimonial tells the story of how QTrobot can […]