Soy Cappaz, support for the autonomous life of people with intellectual disabilities

Toni Codina on 28 September 2022

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Soy Cappaz, support for the autonomous life of people with intellectual disabilities

Fundació Mapfre i Fundació GMP

Mobile application that promotes the autonomy of people with intellectual disabilities in their daily life and work environments. The tool increases the freedom and security of the person with a disability, and the peace of mind of their professional or family members, thanks to better coordination between the user and the support staff, who can follow the activity of the person with a disability with alerts and in real time.

Soy Cappaz has 4 main functionalities: calendar, where I am, my work and I need help. The first one, calendar, allows remembering important appointments and is synchronised with Google Calendar, so that it can be updated by a support person from any device. Secondly, the where I am function is useful for commuting and keeps support people informed of delays or detours. My Jobs has personalised videos on specific tasks (such as how to use the printer at work or how to put the washing machine on) and can be activated by scanning sticker barcodes. Finally, the I need help button allows you to communicate directly with support people in case of an emergency.

It is an easy-to-use tool adapted to the needs of the target group, including tutorials on how to use it. The aim is to reduce the employment gap suffered by people with intellectual disabilities through a practical and simple tool that facilitates their daily and working life.   

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Localization

Spain

Partners Funders

DOWN ESPAÑA, Garrigou Foundation and FEAPS Madrid

Genesis

According to data from the International Labour Organisation (ILO), there are approximately one billion people with disabilities in the world, 80% of whom are of working age. Even so, most of them are unable to access the labour market, especially women.

That is why Fundación MAPFRE and Fundación GMP have been trying to reduce this employment gap since 2015 through Soy Cappaz, improving the independence and living conditions of people with intellectual disabilities, as well as breaking down barriers that hinder their integration into the labour market.

Level of implementation

Since its launch in 2015, the tool has helped more than 4,000 users, and is available in English and Spanish.

Soy Cappaz has received the award for “Best social and environmental commitment project from the Spanish Association of Telecommunications and Information Society Users”.  

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Seeing Al, an app that explains to blind people the world around them.

Toni Codina on 19 July 2022

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Seeing Al, an app that explains to blind people the world around them.

Microsoft

A free mobile application designed for people who are blind or visually impaired, based on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Services technologies, which facilitates the recognition of the environment and audio description of people, objects and texts.

Seeing Al has several channels, including the reading of short texts through the camera, document recognition, identification of products in packaging and access to information such as expiration date or processing through barcode scanning, as well as facial and environmental recognition.

Person recognition allows a refined description of space, where it not only describes in a simple way the elements of a room (such as a chair and three people), but is able to tell which people are involved (e.g. family or friends). In addition, it also identifies the people in the photographs.

The design is inclusive and the testing process has actively involved people with disabilities through non-profit organizations around the world. It is an example of the benefits of co-design.


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Localización

70 countries, including Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States, Germany, and Japan

Partners / Funders

ONCE, American Foundation for the Blind in New York

Genesis

Saqid Shaikh, an engineer in an artificial intelligence research team, lost his sight at the age of 7, and at the age of 10, when he was given a computer that spoke rudimentarily, he set himself the challenge of learning to program, a goal he has achieved at Microsoft, where he is working for greater accessibility and inclusion.

Level of implementation

Since its implementation in 2017, users have carried out more than 20 million tasks through the app.

It is currently available in 70 countries and already includes use in 5 languages other than English; German, Spanish, French, Japanese and Dutch.


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Talking Mats, a visual communication tool for people with communication difficulties.

Toni Codina on 8 July 2022

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Talking Mats, a visual communication tool for people with communication difficulties.

Talking Mats

Talking pad that facilitates communication for people with communication difficulties (dementia, autism and brain injuries, among others). It is a versatile resource that allows to increase the communicative capacity in an effective and innovative way.

The tool works with three sets of communication symbols and images. First, there are thematic cards that define the topic of discussion, e.g., home life. Secondly, there are option cards within this, such as pets, or household cleaning. Finally, the Likert scale is provided, a rating scale that allows you to place yourself between three points: good, bad, and somewhere in between. Once the three sets of symbols have been presented, the participant can say how he/she feels about each card, placing it on the scale and with the possibility of moving them if there is a change of opinion. In addition, the tool is available in physical and digital format.

The project has an impact on various social sectors, especially education, social and health care and justice. At the educational level, children can express their feelings, visions and aspirations, i.e. have a voice with an impact. At the socio-health level, a framework for decision making and support in planning and self-management of needs is provided. It is important to take into account the wishes of each individual. In the field of justice, Talking Mates allows to open conversations on various topics, providing a structure that allows the expression of what is important and the comparison of various points of view.

It is a tool for thought and expression, with the aim of reducing the impact of communication difficulties for the people who use it. Talking Mates supports comprehension by allowing the processing of concepts through the breakdown of information, giving time to respond and reducing memory requirements. In addition, the quality of the information is improved by giving control to the respondent and providing a structured framework for open-ended questions.

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Localization

UK

Partners / Funders

Talking Mats

Genesis

In 1998 Joan Murphy conducted a study analyzing interactions between people with cerebral palsy using high-tech communication tools. The study showed that these people did not have the necessary vocabulary or the ability to express their opinions and, therefore, Murphy thought of developing a visual framework that would allow this expression and reflection.

It was with this intention of improving communication that Talking Mates began to be developed in 2011.

Level of implementation

Since the project began in 2011, the tool has been used by more than 14,000 people in over 40 countries. The flexibility and creativity of Talking Mates has allowed it to be used both digitally and physically.

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Harvi, hearing habilitation in noise environments through virtual reality  

Toni Codina on 31 May 2022

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Harvi, hearing habilitation in noise environments through virtual reality  

Eunate (Associació de Famílies de Persones Sordes de Navarra)

A tool that improves the hearing of deaf people in noisy environments. It is a technological device that improves the daily life of these people and facilitates their auditory, linguistic, educational, occupational and socio-emotional development.

The initiative makes it possible to work on hearing in virtual environments with a 360° field of vision and surrounding sound. With this technological innovation, deaf people can enter everyday spaces such as a dining room, a shopping mall or a terrace, and hear the different background sounds in these places, facilitating their participation and interaction when they are in these environments.

The auditory discrimination tool is used with a speech therapist, who controls the volume of the different sounds to promote learning in the identification of “background noise”, and to develop strategies to improve listening and communication.

The project has been developed by EUNATE, an organization that works with deaf people and their families, with the aim of reducing the barriers to inclusion that this group has and promote a comprehensive and global improvement for them.

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Localization

Navarra

Partners / Funders

Innovasocial, Fundació “La Caixa”, Fundación CajaNavarra

Genesis

The implications of deafness pose major barriers to the inclusion of deaf people in society, who number 14,500 in Navarre and more than one million in Spain. Background noise hinders their communication and prevents them from understanding messages properly, making them unable to communicate in noisy spaces.

That is why in January 2021 the Association of Families of Deaf People of Navarra, presented this innovative tool, which promotes inclusion and auditory rehabilitation of children, young people and people with deafness.

Level of implementation

The tool is showing positive results, especially in children. Through exercises that they carry out in speech therapy classes and that look like games, they learn in a playful and natural way to listen in noisy environments.

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Vila Veïna, a new public community care system

Toni Codina on 3 May 2022

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Vila Veïna, a new public community care system

Barcelona City Council

A new public care system in the city of Barcelona that aims to achieve a model of social and health care that is smaller and closer to the users.

To achieve this, it structures the service in a set of “Super Islands” of care, which encompass a group of houses and neighborhoods of between 10,000 and 30,000 inhabitants, with a reference point located in an open community space (for example, a library) to manage the needs of service users in an integrated manner. Thanks to this new innovative service model, professionals enjoy greater autonomy in the organization and management of their work, since they know the users more closely and are able to deal more directly and satisfactorily with all of them.

Each Vila Veïna has the essential services and benefits related to care in a centralized manner, in order to be able to deal with them closely. It also has emotional support groups and a resource bank for the care of children and the elderly, which provides material such as crutches, cradles, wheelchairs and other items necessary for the care of children and the elderly. It also offers legal and employment advice for caregivers and families in need, as well as talks and outdoor activities. The aim is to provide caregivers with access to information about existing services, as well as to create communities of care and proximity.

Each Vila Veïna has a professional who dedicates his or her working day to promoting networking, programming activities and attending to citizens in relation to care. The new profile of this professional is essential in innovation and requires a set of skills for community activation, as well as knowledge of municipal administrative systems and other administrations.

The project is aimed at the entire population living in the territory, because it is based on the idea that ‘we all take care of each other’, and the goal is to achieve a more caring community with all the people who are part of it.

In short, it is an innovative model that humanizes services and contemplates the participation of people, both caregivers and those receiving care, who are part of a community network and co-responsible for the collective welfare.

By 2022 there will be 12 Vila Veïna spaces in the city of Barcelona, and the goal is to have 115 throughout the city in the future.

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Localization

Barcelona

Partners / Funders

Barcelona City Council

Genesis

The project began in May 2021, promoted by the Social Rights area of the Barcelona City Council, with the aim of addressing care in small territorial units. During the Covid-19 pandemic, citizens became more aware of the importance of care and of the invisible work done by thousands of people, mostly women, mainly for children and the elderly, since these are the two age groups in which care is particularly relevant. The project was intended to reinforce the strategy initiated by the City Council in 2020 to move the Home Care Service (SAD) to the neighborhoods, with the aim of offering more proximity and more personalized help.

This new model aims to establish small professional teams in residential areas, thus avoiding the costs derived from travel, reference teams or communications, and favoring the creation of a community of proximity care.

Level of implementation

There are currently four VilaVeïna spaces in the city of Barcelona: El Congrés i els Indians, La Marina, Provençals del Poblenou and Vilapicina and Torre Llobeta. The forecast is that they will be established in all districts of the city (16 territorial units) progressively until 2023. The second phase of this project will begin in 2022 and 12 more Vila Veïna spaces are planned to be created to provide this service to 320,000 citizens.

The project is supported by the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona for the evaluation, which will include an impact assessment.

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Inclusively, a digital job search platform for people with disabilities

admin on 6 April 2022

Inclusively, plataforma digital de cerca de feina per a persones amb discapacitat
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Inclusively, a digital job search platform for people with disabilities

Inclusively

Inclusively, plataforma digital de cerca de feina per a persones amb discapacitat

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Digital platform for the labor inclusion of people with disabilities, whether physical, intellectual, sensory or mental illness. It connects people with disabilities with companies committed to providing jobs adapted to their needs. In addition, it also has job counselors who work directly with candidates to improve their profile and accompany them in their job research.

The platform works in such a way that candidates can filter job offers according to the conditions they need, for example, physical accessibility, screen readers, flexible working hours, etc. The goal is that companies, no matter what size they are, offer the right jobs based on the skills, abilities and experience of each candidate.

On the other hand, in order to guarantee the right working conditions for the jobs, the platform offers training to companies so that they can adapt their work environments so that workers with disabilities can develop their full potential.

It is a platform that offers equal opportunities in job research to people with disabilities, as well as the opportunity for companies to find talent and experience among these group of people.

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Localization

Virginia (U.S.A)

Partners/Funders

Inclusively

Genesis

The Inclusively platform works for people with disabilities who are included in the ADA: The Americans with Disabilities Act. It include people with physical disabilities, visual impairments, hearing impairments, neurodivergents, people with chronic illnesses and intellectual disabilities, among others.

People with disabilities are twice as likely to be unemployed. Only 29% of people with disabilities in the United States are employed, compared to 75% for the population as a whole.

Inclusively also leads by example, as 25% of its workforce is made up of people with disabilities, including its co-founder.

Level of implementation

Inclusively is a company founded in 2020 in Virginia. Since then, it has helped thousands of people with disabilities find jobs in the United States, and works with companies of all sizes, including Microsoft and Yahoo!.

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Sambhav, tele-rehabilitation service for people with disabilities in rural areas

admin on 11 March 2022

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Sambhav, tele-rehabilitation service for people with disabilities in rural areas

JVS-Jan Vikas Samiti

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Tele-rehabilitation service for people with physical disabilities living in rural areas through an App for mobile phones and a web portal. It offers remote consultation, prevention, diagnosis and therapeutic rehabilitation services. The programme, which started with physical rehabilitation, is expanding to other disciplines such as physiotherapy, speech therapy, occupational therapy and assistive technologies.

The tele-rehabilitation services have a dual focus. On the one hand, to provide quality training to professionals in rural areas to improve their rehabilitation skills through regular courses and workshops. On the other hand, to guide and advise in real time the professionals working in the field through a central team of experts.

Over the years, Sambhav has used the data obtained to standardize various rehabilitation services. The aim is that all people with physical disabilities can receive fast and quality care at their place of residence by qualified professionals.

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Location

India

Partners/Funders

Liliane Foundation, District Disability Rehabilitation Centres, Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment, Government of India

Genesis

The JVS-Jan Vikas Samiti organisation launched the Sambhav tele-rehabilitation project in 2018 to reach out to people with disabilities in rural India. The aim of the project is to improve rehabilitation schemes and provide appropriate therapy to people with disabilities, wherever they live, as well as to train professionals in the territory in diagnosis and quality rehabilitation. Tele-rehabilitation offers consultation, prevention, diagnosis and therapeutic rehabilitation services through two-way interactive telecommunication technology.

Level of implementation

In order to provide quality rehabilitation services to all people with disabilities, JVS designed this project from the outset to be easily scalable. The service is now present in 10 states in India, with 18 partner organisations in the northern and north-eastern regions of India.

JVS plans to extend the service to other territories with rural areas that have to work in similar conditions and with limited resources, such as countries in South and Southeast Asia, Africa and some in South America.

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Voiceitt, voice assistant for people with speech impairments

admin on 23 February 2022

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Voiceitt, voice assistant for people with speech impairments

Voiceitt

Voiceitt

An application that allows people with speech impairments to use intelligent voice assistants

Voiceitt is an accessibility application for people with speech disabilities or speech impairments that learns the particularities of the atypical speech of these people and translates it into the voice assistants on the market, so that they can use them for their conversations and daily routines like other citizens.

The app analyses the voice data, cadence, breathing, pauses, etc. of each person and, by means of automatic learning, learns and models the speech patterns to understand what they are saying. In addition, a team of experts continuously analyses speech samples to calibrate and refine the algorithm to achieve accurate interpretation for an increasingly wide range of speech forms.

The time Voiceitt takes to train varies from person to person. In general, it takes only a few minutes to make a sentence available for use, while in other cases it needs to have several recordings of the person’s voice.

As for languages, since Voiceitt learns each person’s unique speech patterns, it can accommodate phrases in any language. Currently, the application interface (including instructions, settings page, error messages, etc.) is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Hebrew, while the application’s pre-written phrases are all in English. Individuals can create customized phrases and scenarios in the language of their choice.

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Location

Israel

Partners/Funders

AMITechnion, Alexa Fund, Viking Maccabee, Liake, Microsoft’s Venture Fund, Cahn Capital Corp, SLJ, 43 North, Buffalo Angels, Cisco Investments, AARP.

Genesis

The app was founded in 2012 by Danny Weissberg, with the aim of making automated voice assistants accessible to all types of people. Voiceitt was born with the intention of being more than just an app, as it also wants to support inclusion, communication and personal autonomy.

Level of implementation

Voiceitt has managed to integrate its application into Amazon’s Alexa service. It has also collaborated with Cisco’s Webex on AI-powered transcription and captioning for people with disabilities.

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REHAB-LAB, virtual community for the manufacture of technical aids with 3D printing

admin on 10 February 2022

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REHAB-LAB, virtual community for the manufacture of technical aids with 3D printing

REHAB-LAB

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A virtual community for the manufacture of technical aids using 3D printing, which allows users to design and build their own aids in collaboration with technologists and socio-health professionals.

In this service, which is unique in France because of its integration within a rehabilitation centre, engineers are dedicated to innovation and the development of technological assistance for people with disabilities. The REHAB-LAB enables users to actively participate in the manufacture of their technical aids, thanks to 3D printing technology.

3D printing offers many advantages over conventional manufacturing techniques used to date in occupational therapy: adaptation, reproduction, aesthetics, weight, distribution, time, cost, accessibility, appropriation, mediation/occupation…

Accessibility is the main interest of 3D printing for users, who can be more involved in the rehabilitation process. Since the design of an object is digital, the possibility of creating one’s own technical aids is no longer due to the physical manipulation of materials but to the accessibility of the computer tool.

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Location

France

Partners/Funders

Kerpape, Co Work’Hit, Hit, French Government, Banque de Territoires

Genesis

The first REHAB-LAB was launched in February 2016 at the Mutual Centre for Rehabilitation and Functional Rehabilitation (CMRRF) by the Centre’s Electronics Laboratory in close collaboration with occupational therapy services.

After two years of routine operation at Kerpape, the first REHAB-LAB training course was set up in February 2018 at the request of external professionals. Other structures that already have their own initiatives around 3D printing also join REHAB-LAB first. Since then, a virtual community has been structured and has spread throughout France.

Level of implementation

Since its creation five years ago, the REHAB-LAB has made it possible to produce around 1,400 devices at very affordable prices.

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myCarenet, community support network for people with dependency

admin on 28 January 2022

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myCarenet, community support network for people with dependency

myCarenet

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App that allows the person with some kind of dependency or their reference relative to weave and co-create their own support network in their home and their usual environment.

This tool allows maintaining and increasing meaningful social relationships (family, friends, neighbours, etc.) from an inclusive and community point of view, and at the same time prevents an eventual feeling of unwanted loneliness.

The person can contact and contract professional social and health care services on demand, or contact and receive community support for activities of daily living. In this way, myCarenet makes it possible to share the burden of care, lightening the load of the main caregiver.

In addition, both people with dependency and their support (family, community or professional) can access continuous and personalized training that promotes self-care and enables support persons to carry out a quality social and care task.

On the other hand, within the values of the circular economy, myCarenet promotes dignified and regulated work for people with difficulties in finding work and who, with a correct training itinerary, can find employment stability in the social and healthcare sector.

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Catalonia

Partners/Funders

Ajuntament de Terrassa, Antic Poble de Sant Pere, Alzheimer Catalunya, Salut Mental Catalunya, Prodis, Prou Barreres, Pyme Legal, Ubilibet, BrandChats, Caixa d’Enginyers, Baku, Ilimit, Glide, CodiTramuntana

Genesis

In 2018, after a long career in the field of residential care, Albert Puig Tobella promoted myCarenet while researching a high-impact alternative model that meets the needs of people with dependency and their caregiving environment in an empowered, effective, flexible and sustainable way. Thus, myCarenet aims to be a lever for transformation and social cohesion, promoting equal opportunities, autonomy, quality of life and person-directed care.

Level of implementation

Since the birth of myCarenet, the project has been maturing little by little thanks to the complicity and collaboration of many people and entities that have rocked it. At this stage, it is still in a phase of growth.

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