Autistic Children Get An Israli 'BioHug'
"For Raffi Rembrand, necessity was definitely the mother of his invention. An Israeli engineer and father to a son with autism, Rembrand was well aware of the difficulties of raising a child with severe autism.
He had devoured all the information about the well established treatment of deep pressure touch to produce a calming effect in agitated individuals with autism. However, he discovered that most existing devices were more like straightjackets and weren't sensitive to changes in the patient's movement and couldn't regulate the pressure based on the patient's needs or body gauges.
An inventor by nature, Rembrand began tinkering in his home until he came up with the idea of a light, wearable, vest-like calming device that's both portable and non-restraining."
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hmm, i heard about it, very interesting! I know their is a similar invention out for hourses to calm them when eather moving them or doin somethin to them i cant remember heard about it a long time ago. Guess it can work on anybody, not just kids with autism.
Ooh, I want it! Too bad it's not available yet. Also, I think making it more high tech is a mistake -- makes it too expensive for average people like us.
The article mentioned something interesting about autistic hearing, too:
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"There's a body of suggestive evidence that people with autism hear differently than other people. When you put a shell to your ear and you think you hear the ocean - it's called otoacoustic emissions - produced by the inner ear itself which is thought to have some role in filtering out background noise," Schiffmiller explained.
"The working theory was that there's a difference in the otoacoustic emissions of people with autism - if that's true and you can quantify it, then you can have a purely empirical way of diagnosing autism - even in infants."
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Thanks for sharing the article!