Using personalized video feedback, SocialMind is a training platform for therapists and caregivers of children with autism

SocialMind is a simple, convenient, and pleasant tool that meets parents’ challenges and difficulties after their child’s diagnosis. SocialMind allows us, the parents, to learn through a computer or smartphone, evidence-based interventions, upload videos documenting her work, and receive clear, pleasant, detailed, and empowering feedback that helps us get additional tools to improve our daughter.  The combination of the digital trainer plus the feedback we received is critical. Therefore, without working with SocialMind, we would be wasting precious time where it is “easier” to teach our daughter developmental milestones, which may become a more challenging task at an older age. 

Thanks to SocialMind, my daughter has progressed miraculously since the diagnosis at the age of one year and four months. She speaks in complete sentences, makes adequate eye contact, and knows how to ask for and express her desires! SocialMind digital trainer is simple and easy to use, built-in a precise way: practice real-life video interactions after each training module. This practice makes it easier to implement your new skill when motivating your child to interact. The videos teach what to do, and what is fantastic is that the parents take a significant part in the care! The therapy takes place in the child’s most comfortable and natural environment. During play, snack time,  taking a bath without driving to an outside clinic.  The feedback method is innovative and convenient displayed in a way that helps and directs the parent to get better!

My son was diagnosed at the age of two with genetic syndrome and autism. We immediately started getting PRT training with SocialMind. The parent digital training was the first step in our intensive early intervention life. The progress was highly significant, mainly thanks to parental guidance. The ability to integrate the treatments into the daily family setting has greatly relieved us of the physical and emotional burden involved in caring for our child. Instead of going around from therapist to therapist, we treated our child at home in his familiar environment, with his siblings and neighbors. Our child began to make eye contact very quickly and express his desires through vocal expressions. I can say that without the early intervention of PRT through SocialMind, our child could not have progressed as he did.

As parents of two children diagnosed with autism, we were very excited to start working with SocialMind personal trainer just a few months after our youngest daughter was diagnosed. The trainer offers practical, straightforward, and convenient techniques that we could apply in different situations in everyday life. The convenience inherent in SocialMind is innovative in itself. Busy parents can practice the modules in their own time, upload home videos whenever it suits them, and watch the team feedback whenever possible. Video feedback is a huge bonus that makes the experience very productive. 

Since we started using SocialMind with our two-and-a-half-year-old daughter, we have seen considerable progress in communication, her eye contact, phrases, and initiations.

Your attention to nuances is inspiring. And your feedback often makes me smile. After three frustrating years of trying to teach my son how to get dressed he suddenly made swift progress when we embedded “functional motivations”. He dresses independently now.

The trainer is fantastic, utterly different from the activities suggested to us by our child’s daycare. During the Covid-lockdown, we were constantly on the verge of tears, trying to implement their suggested activities, such as sitting by a table and threading beads. My husband and I felt like failures. At last, we now have reasonable strategies for interacting with our child.”

Parents of children with various disabilities are often told by the therapist to do things that sound great in theory. But in fact, you can tell that this comes from a person doing their job from 9 to 5; they don’t know what it’s like to go home and work with a disabled child. They suggest activities from a textbook that would never work in my house. But in the case of SocialMind’s trainer, it was obvious that this stuff has been done and tested by both parents and experts; it was very encouraging.

With SocialMind we’re managing to change how our daughter perceives communication, and progress from the point where we’ve been stuck for the last two years… It’s a hugely important project that can improve the lives of many families that deal with autism. It’s a well-built app, and the clear information it provides is priceless.

My son is resistant to doing stuff…He can only express his basic needs. It’s tough to communicate with him. For me, being able to go back and look at the training modules again made a huge difference. I started implementing the strategy that you call “Gain Control” immediately, on the day I learned it during the evening shower…Also, the feedback I received from you was excellent.

After using the digital trainer, I taught my husband and my older son the strategies I had learned. We were all practicing and motivating OG to communicate on many occasions throughout the day.

The crystal-clear video annotations are excellent. They helped me focus my attention on the crucial details at the right moment. This was so helpful…