24-Year-Old Ghanaian Develops App for Autistic Children

[Neuromancer]

• Skip to navigation (n)
• Skip to content (c)
• Skip to footer (f)

• RECENT INFO
  • Recent info
    • Politics
    • Business
    • Lifestyle
    • Entertainment
    • Sports
    • Opinion
    • History
    • World
    • 
      2010 Kampala Suicide Bombers Appeal Court Sentence21 hours ago2010 Kampala Suicide Bombers Appeal Court SentenceBYCHARLES AYITEY
      
    • 
      Senior Ugandan Military Officers Arrested over Alleged Coup22 hours agoSenior Ugandan Military Officers Arrested over Alleged CoupBYFREDRICK NGUGI
      
    • 
      George Weah for President: Can Football Legend Take Liberia’s Highest Office?1 day agoGeorge Weah for President: Can Football Legend Take Liberia’s Highest Office?BYADEDEJI ADEMOLA
    SEE ALL
  • Join Our Newsletter(2)
  • US EDITION(3)
    • US EDITION
  • Search(4)
  • SUBMIT A STORY(5)
  • FACEBOOK
    
  • TWITTER
    
  • LINKEDIN
    
  • INSTAGRAM
    
  • YOUTUBE

• Politics
• Business
• Lifestyle
• Entertainment
• Sports
• Opinion
• History
• World

• 
  2010 Kampala Suicide Bombers Appeal Court Sentence21 hours ago2010 Kampala Suicide Bombers Appeal Court SentenceBY CHARLES AYITEY
• 
  Senior Ugandan Military Officers Arrested over Alleged Coup22 hours agoSenior Ugandan Military Officers Arrested over Alleged CoupBY FREDRICK NGUGI
• 
  George Weah for President: Can Football Legend Take Liberia’s Highest Office?1 day agoGeorge Weah for President: Can Football Legend Take Liberia’s Highest Office?BY ADEDEJI ADEMOLA

SEE ALL

• JOIN OUR NEWSLETTER(2)

• US EDITION(3)
  • US EDITION

• SEARCH(4)

• SUBMIT A STORY(5)

• Facebook

• Twitter

• Linkedin

• Instagram

• YouTube

CHARLES AYITEY, at 08:00 am, June 01, 2016,LIFESTYLE

24-Year-Old Ghanaian Develops App for Autistic Children

• Facebook
  
• Twitter
  
• LinkedIn
  
• Google+
  
• WhatsApp
  
• Email
• 0 COMMENTS
  
  
  
  
  (Photo: the guardian.com)
  Living with autism in Ghana has just been made more bearable since HopeSetters, an autism center, came out with a locally configured autism app that helps children with autism receive better education.
  
  
  • FOLLOW US
  • Twitter
    
  • Facebook
    
  • LinkedIn
    
  • Instagram
  The privately funded center is the very first in Sub-Saharan Africa to make learning easier for kids with autism.
  
  Speaking of her motivation, 24-year-old Alice Amoako (pictured) says that her desire to ease the strain of teaching and learning among children with special needs informed her decision to develop the app.
  
  
  
  
  (Photo:mamagaonline.com)
  
  “I [visited] an autism centre and had interactions with the caregivers and children, and I realized there was a need to help raise awareness. In my final year [at university], I had to do a project to complete my studies, and we developed the app,” she said.
  
  Ghana currently has no official documentation or statistics on the state of children with autism; however, a recent report indicates that 1 in 87 children in Ghana under the age of 3 have autism with the neurological disorder being 4 times more prevalent in boys than in girls.
  

24-Year-Old Ghanaian Develops App for Autistic Children

 

[Worthless Loser]

#Black excellence. Dope. Proud of her. Hopefully this takes off.

 

[Neuromancer]

#Black excellence. Dope. Proud of her. Hopefully this takes off.

Yeah. From the article this was much needed..

 

[mortuus est]

but i thought autism and adhd wasnt a real thing? funny