Wide Therapy is a digital behavior-learning platform for young children with disabilities, that helps them overcome their personal challenges in a playful, easy, and effective manner. It encourages motivation by incorporating visual elements from the child and their surroundings. This creates a virtual environment for learning and practicing behaviors based on evidence-based therapeutic techniques that accommodate how children think. It adapts to their individual processing needs with video self-modeling and applied behavior analysis.
Adopting new behaviors facilitates child development and independence. Children with disabilities often struggle to learn important new behaviors, or to apply learned behaviors to new contexts. Behaviors such as toilet training, transitioning between different settings, sharing, and using medical equipment are crucial for children with special needs and can deeply affect their present and future quality of life.
Wide Therapy does not require reading or language comprehension, enabling it to be personalized to suit children in any language. It is intuitive and easy to use for children with cognitive disabilities as young as two years old with minimal assistance. It does not require extensive training for clinicians or parents. Wide initial trials have shown success in 80% of cases. The company is currently working to expand the platform to include a wider range of behaviors.