São Paulo – Brazilian startup Jade Autism won the Supernova Challenge award in the Gitex Future Stars, the biggest startup event of the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. The show takes place from December 6 to 20 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Besides winning in the Best Social & Environmental Impact category, the company participated in the exhibition section.
Jade Autism develops gamified therapeutic solutions for children and adolescents with cognitive disabilities. The Brazilian startup participated in the competition with this technology. “I’m really happy to be the champion [of this category] of Gitex. Since I put my feet on this country, I knew that I had to do my best work to win this year. It was my dream,” Jade Autism CEO and founder Ronaldo Cohim (pictured above, left) said.
The app works as a support for the professional who accompanies the autistic child. According to a press release, as the person accesses the material, as the patient uses the app, prognostic metrics are automatically generated for the therapist, ensuring a more effective.
The technology was created by Cohin, who’s a software developer and the father of an autistic child. His own experience made him notice the lack of quality apps for the parents of autistic children. With the help of therapists and professionals specialized in the treatment of autistic spectrum disorder (ASD) from APAE-ES, which has been a partner from the beginning, he developed an app based on matching games of colors, numbers, letters, animals and objects.
Watch below his speech:
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
