Seattle Post-Intelligencer report Paul Nyhan writes about Teachtown software as a “high-tech way to lower the cost of autism.” Parents in Seattle report that they spend “$30,000, $40,000 and $50,000 a year on applied behavior analysis because few health insurance plans cover the costly treatment”; a subscription to Teachtown is $40/month. While the software’s founders stress that there is no substitute for actual, live human teachers (yes, there is no substitute!), it can provide “some—though not all—of the elements of the popular behavioral therapy.” Specifically,
Backed by concepts co-founder Lars Lidén learned while earning a doctorate in cognitive and neural systems, …read more