AI Telemedicine platform for kids with ADHD and ASD
Welcome to PIGPUG HEALTH blog! We work on AI telemedicine startup which helps kids with ADHD and ASD. A long time ago our team members faced ADHD syndrome themselves and decided to find a non-medication way to help kids study, communicate, and grow up in a better way.
In the US there are of 9,4% kids were diagnosed ADHD, and about 1,7 % of kids have been ever diagnosed ASD. [Content source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention]. Kids with ADHD or ASD are very special, they all have difficulties with socialization and with a study process, but in a different way. These kids require ongoing development and education, but this way is very expensive and complicated for parents and teachers, so more and more often work with a child is replaced with medication. Medication doesn’t treat ADHD or ASD, it only helps to kill the symptoms with very strong drugs like Ritalin or Adderall. Nonstymulants are also used in medication, but the effect is really low and there are too many contraindications. Will the medication make children with ADHD and ASD calmer — yes, will it change their lives in a better way — no.
There are other ways to help kids with ADHD and ASD: psychotherapy and neurofeedback therapy. They both give positive results in a kid behavior and emotional condition. Neither psychotherapy nor neurofeedback is a 100% suitable solution for parents and kids. Psychotherapy needs a really long time for the first results and works only with regular sessions. Classic neurofeedback therapy gives effective long-term progress, but it usually goes with inconvenient headset which is usually a little stress for a kid, moreover both of these methods are expensive.
Faced up the current situation Pigpug created the solution: AI telemedicine brain training system for kids with ADHD or ASD. Our product consists of three parts:
- Telemedicine online platform: web & apps. Helps a child with ADHD or ASD can get an online neurofeedback brain training session.
- AI software that visualizes the EEG data on the monitor in real-time in the format of educational games.
- FDA certified neurofeedback headset which measures the electrical activity of the brain and transfers this data to a smartphone or a tablet.
For parents who want to help their children with ADHD or ASD Pigpug is a technological and convenient solution: it’s online and fits any timetable. The neurofeedback headset is light wearable and not too stressful for a kid. Neurofeedback sessions are made as games or quizzes, which helps kids to feel calm and open for a new experience. Systematical sessions with a tutor will give first progressive results in 3 weeks. Parents mention the difference after 5–6 sessions and after a child finishes a course they can continue sessions at the next level or make a pause. To buy a course with kid’s diagnostic and parents onboarding as easy as to buy an ordinary online course — just a few clicks. Our main goal is to create an AI telemedicine platform that saves parents money and time and will give kids with ADHD or ASD a chance to find friends, to finish schools and universities, to grow up independent happy people.
It the next post we will share further info about ADHD and ASD, successful cases of neurofeedback therapy, our results in AI telemedicine development, and Pigpug Health updates.
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Anastasiya Kuzniatsova M.D., Child Neurologist
Polina Santsevich CMO
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