Our First Project: “Play, Track, Act” app finalization and rollout.  Health-Action's team is finalizing our childhood development app (1). It's milestone content and artwork are adapted from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, “Learn the Signs. Act Early.” Program (www.cdc.gov/ActEarly)

 

The objectives of the app are to:

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Substantially improve 

• Parent-child interaction 

• Family’s quality of life

• Long term outcomes in children

 

Substantially decrease 

• Age of diagnosis of autism and developmental delays

• Age of initiation of early intervention

  • By parents and caregivers

  • By professionals (behavior analysts, speech therapists, occupational therapists, special educators)

• Screen time exposure ​

We will encourage parents to be proactive to help their child reach developmental milestones, to follow the American Academy of Pediatrics/World Health Organization screen time limits (2,3) and to guide parents to take needed action when milestones are missed. 

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We are translating the app into Vietnamese and plan additional languages. We are partnering with the Early Detection Lab at the University of Connecticut to provide customized online family training.

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We seek early childhood development professionals for several roles:

• Board Members, team members, and formal/informal consultants

• Supervise a master’s degree student in ABA at the Florida Institute of Technology

• Provide app usability testing