Why Special Education Technology Needs to Go Beyond The Screen

Bluebee Pals Featured in Huffington Post by: Ladislas de Toldi

Interactive toys can be personalized to the degree that they become almost humanoid. For example, Bluebee Pals, an interactive toy, has helped autistic children follow directions, learn to take turns and increase communications by connecting the friendly plush animal to apps that personalize language tools, games and visual stories. The key here is that the robot can be programmed on the back-end, allowing for individualized yet measurable objectives that teachers and parents can use to help advance future development – all at the speed of a specific child.

Ladislas de Toldi is the CEO and Co-founder of Leka, a startup set on changing the way children with developmental disorders learn, play and progress, through a robotic smart toy of the same name. Ladislas graduated from the School of Industrial Biology, in Paris, France, with a degree in Biotech Engineering.