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A UK based company who is developing an educational app for dyslexia is looking to partner with schools and educational institutions to test the product under a technical cooperation agreement.

Country of Origin: United Kingdom
Reference Number: TOUK20180529001
Publication Date: 19 June 2018

Summary

The UK based company has developed an  educational app for dyslexia that detects the nature of literacy difficulties a child experiences at a young age and proposes the most appropriate and tailored interventions to enable teachers/parents to provide effective support to the child. The company is now looking to partner with schools and relevant organisations to test and validate the product with children (4-8 years). The envisaged collaboration will be under a technical cooperation agreement.

Description

According to substantiated scientific estimates, it is estimated that between 5 and 12 percent of the population of European citizens are affected by dyslexia and specific learning difficulties.

The UK based company had developed a solution which uses the latest neuro-scientific knowledge to develop interactive games that assess a young child's reading ability and other non-linguistic skills such as visual perception, visuospatial attention and fine auditory perception, as well as short term memory. It is an interactive game-based intelligent system accessible from any digital device, and radically reduces intervention costs: as no specialised hardware nor specialised professionals are required. The use of interactive digital technology allows the company to provide individual testing and propose tailored interventions, which are not possible in a paper-based mode.

The company's team includes neuroscientists, game developers, software engineers, dyslexic specialists, digital health expert and business development experts. The company's vision is to roll the app out across the UK, Europe and ultimately into global markets.

At this stage, the company is looking to partner with schools, local education authorities, focus groups and primary educational bodies to test the product with children aged 4-8 years in order to validate and further refine the solution. The envisaged collaboration will be under a technical cooperation agreement.

Advantages and Innovations

The solution delivers a digital health and education solution that radically improves detection of literacy difficulties characteristic of dyslexia at an early stage, when interventions are most effective, and which aids self-management to improve quality of life and increase the chances of achieving educational and professional success. Such automated solutions do not currently exist in the market. 

The main advantages are individualised diagnosis, individualised monitoring and management of dyslexia. In addition, it allows parents and teachers with no specialist knowledge of dyslexia to understand where the child is struggling and proposes the most effective intervention.

Stage Of Development

Available for demonstration

Stage Of Development Comment

The company has carried-out market research during a feasibility project supported by Innovate UK's Biomedical Catalyst 2016 programme. During the project it had the chance to work closely with dyslexia specialists, adult dyslexics, teachers of special-needs children and parents of dyslexic children.

Requested partner

The UK based company is currently preparing the roll-out of the platform across the UK, Europe and ultimately into global markets. 

At this stage, the company is looking to partner with schools, local education authorities, focus groups and primary educational bodies to test the product with children aged 4-8 years in order to validate and further refine the solution. To start with, the ideal partners will be based in English speaking countries or where the majority of children learn English as a second language.

The envisaged collaboration will be under a technical cooperation agreement.

Cooperation offer is closed for requests