The door of the family home has a special name plate on it. The daughter, Vendela, designed it in the art style of Minecraft, her favourite game. Vendela is Love’s big sister. While Love can be subdued, Vendela is playful, energetic, and joyful. After I greeted her, she shifted her attention quickly between her… Read more
Two weeks ago I visited a boy named Love and his mother Elisabeth. Love has autism, which can be very difficult for him some days. This day, something has happened during the day so Love is very frustrated. Even when his mother tries to talk to him so he looks down on his iPad and… Read more
Today Anton and Karl are visiting Elisabeth who is mother to her son Love and daughter Vendela. The family have been using the beta version of the DayCape app for three weeks. Elisabeth tells us that DayCape is helpful in the everyday life, especially because the children are more likely to do what they need… Read more
The initial idea with Snailday was to help people with autism to plan their daily activities by watching a snail go through their day at a steady pace. However, through feedback from users, we realised not all of them felt they could relate to a snail – as cute as he looked, some users wanted… Read more
Pictogram icons have been commonly used in autism resource for education and habilitation and there is a good reason for that. For an autistic person it can be difficult to understand verbal communication for a lot of reasons. It can be that the person understands the words but not the context or it’s because social… Read more
We at the DayCape team got the chance to interview autism parent Elisabeth, mother of two children, a boy with autism, ADHD and a girl with ADHD and autism tendency, to understand the struggles they are dealing with in their everyday life. We brought along Karl, who is a psychologist student, to see if he… Read more
This the week, the DayCape team has been doing phone interviews to understand the daily lives of people with autism and to see how DayCape could make their life easier. We have chosen to interview three people with different experiences of autism. Tina Tina is a mother of three children with autism, therefore it is… Read more
We at the DayCape team are very happy to announce that we will be able to create and launch an IPhone app that will be available through the App Store! DayCape recently won the prestigious competition “Innovation for everyone” by PTS in Sweden. This means that we will receive enough funding to finish DayCape and… Read more
At the Ottawa Technical Secondary School’s program for autism education, two students got a first look at DayCape together with their teacher Anne Villeneuve. Two of Anne´s students tests an early beta of DayCape. Anne said to us. – DayCape could be the perfect app for my students with autism. It will help with transitions… Read more
We at the DayCape team got the chance to do an interesting interview with the employees at Misa in Blackeberg in Stockholm. Misa is an organization that provides autism rehabilitation and they help and support for people with the condition. They help to develop your skills and capabilities so that you can participate in the… Read more