Our pitch:
In a developing country like Bangladesh, children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) virtually have no access to appropriate education and training. Even in the capital city, Dhaka, it is very difficult to enroll an autistic child them into a specialized school due to a limited number of seats, and an exorbitant amount of tuition fees. Outside the capital, the resources are more scarce and hence the situation is even worse. These children often need personalized training due to the unique characteristics of their brain development. However, there is severe scarcity of competent teachers and trainers for them in Bangladesh and most of the experts are living in Dhaka. As a result children with autism outside Dhaka are deprived of personalized education and training. This tragic scenario is also common in many other. To solve this problem we proposed a simple and unique solution “Learning through Remote Apprenticeship (LRA)” - a unique way to connect a child with ASD to a trainer over Internet. This one-to-one connection will ensure personalized training for each child. LRA will build on the existing video conferencing platforms (Skype, Hangout, etc., for example) that will make a secure connection between the trainer and the remote learner. The matching between them will be done using sophisticated theories of personality matching and machine learning based on feedback data.
This solution can solve one of the major challenge of global health and education that can easily be replicated in various other conditions and settings.
Where our solution team is headquartered or located:
Dhaka, BangladeshThe dimensions of the Challenge our solution addresses:
What makes our solution innovative:
This solution is particularly innovative because of its focus on personalization and interactivity that is often missing in the mainstream remote educational platforms like Coursera or Edx. Moreover, this solution is flexible enough to incorporate the local cultural values of teaching and learning by connecting the experts and learners from the same cultural setting. Furthermore, this intelligent platform quickly learns if a pair of expert-learners is working well, and acts promptly to ensure the best education for each learner, and the best teaching experience for the experts.
How technology is integral to our solution:
We use Skype and Facebook to connect teacher and students. Our online Platform gives the teacher to learn various new techniques and promote their creativity to teach their students with autism. Using the artificial intelligence we will select the best combination of the teacher and student from the database and also predict the best teaching approach may be for student.
Our solution goals over the next 12 months:
We aim to teach 300 teacher within the next 12 months and hope to serve 300 students with autism.
Our vision over the next three to five years to grow and scale our solution to affect the lives of more people:
We want to expand its activity to other resource poor countries in the world. Within the next 3 year we want to deploy the system in Rwanda and Nepal. We hope to train 10000 teacher within the next 3 year and bring 25% children with autism in a educational system.
The key characteristics of the populations who will benefit from our solution in the next 12 months:
The regions where we will be operating in the next 12 months:
The countries where we currently operate:
How we will reach and retain our customers or beneficiaries:
Our solution will be deployed online in our website and teachers and students can join the platform with their unique username and password. We will share the information about the website and our activities by regular campaigning in Facebook, You Tube, TV promotional, SMS and Posturing in different schools.
How many people we will be serving with our solution in the 12 months and the next 3 years:
We aim to train 500 teachers and serve 500 children with Autism by June 2019. Our goal is to serve 10,000 children with autism by the end of June 2021. Our Artificial Intelligence will be mature to predict the most effective teaching approach and best teacher.
How our solution team is organized:
Not Registered as Any OrganizationHow many people work on our solution team:
12How many years we have been working on our solution:
Less than 1 yearThe skills our solution team has that will enable us to attract the different resources needed to succeed and make an impact:
In our team we have psychiatrist with expertise and experience in developing and implementing technology based mental health programs in Bangladesh. We have a autism child who is also a professor pediatrics. Our team also have a world famous human computer specialist and professor of University of Toronto. We are glad to have the active participation and support from the high official of government of Bangladesh.
The types of connections and partnerships we would be most interested in if we became Solvers:
Solution Team
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Dr. Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor, University of Toronto
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CC
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FM
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TANJIR RASHID SORON Dr., Telepsychiatry Research and Innovation Network
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Our tagline:
Gives access to education and training to the Children with Autism through Remote Apprenticeship.