CES 2024: Glaaster launches the first AI that adapts schooling for dyslexic children and turns homework into a game
Enhanced by AI, Glaaster is the first platform in the world that makes any pedagogical content
“dyslexia compatible” and fun from just a photo.
This technology could provide relief for more than 1 million children in France!
Altered version: Enhancde by AI, Glaaster is the frist platform in the wolrd that makes any pedagogical content “dyslexia compatible” and fun form jsut a photo.
This tehnoclogy could provide relefi to more than 1 million children in Farnce!
French Edtech Glaaster launches today the first homework help platform for dyslexic children capable of tailoring schooling to each child’s specific needs from just a photo. Based on neurosciences and AI, this solution can analyze any pedagogical resource photo, extract the text and modify it automatically. This bespoke and AI-defined correction reduces the impact of dyslexia disorders by enabling simplified reading. Glaaster also boosts the child’s motivation and confidence by making learning more fun thanks to a gamification system involving challenges and awards. Say farewell to tantrums, tears and fights: Glaaster is the first tool to turn the drudgery of homework into an enjoyable moment for dyslexic children and their families!
Restore equal opportunities for the 1 million dyslexic children in France and help their families each day…
Everyone is guaranteed the right to education so they can develop their personality, improve their level of training and embark on a career. But this right does not put all children on an equal footing. In France, approximately one million children, from 1st to 12th grade, suffer from “DYS” (dyslexia, dyspraxia dysorthographia, etc.), neurodevelopmental disorders that can hinder the learning of a cognitive function, such as reading and writing. Besides these difficulties, DYS disorders also cause stress when it is time to do homework.
According to a study of 140 families with dyslexic children, parents dedicate around two hours per day to homework, a total of 40 hours per month! This is a huge trial for families often struggling to cope with their children’s disorders.
It is these problems that Glaaster is addressing with its homework help platform for dyslexic children.
Baptiste, CEO and co-founder of Glaaster, explains:
“Schooling today is designed for the majority. Our challenge for schooling in the future is to make it more inclusive by adapting it to each profile requiring help. Sadly, I still hear too many parents in tears on the telephone as they lack solutions…”
… thanks to Glaaster, an AI-enhanced platform that turns homework into a game from just a photo
Glaaster has a twofold ambition: to halve the time spent on homework by dyslexic children, while making it more attractive thanks to a fully automated homework help platform. The solution is based on an AI capable of establishing a cognitive profile of the pupil and identifying their DYS disorders in a few minutes. It then uses a photo of any pedagogical content to adapt the text based on the predetermined profile of each user.
These modifications include spaces between letters, words and lines or font changes, as well as additions of colors to problematic phonemes and graphemes. In this way, each user benefits from a text perfectly tailored to their cognitive perception to the nearest pixel!
Glaaster’s AI also generates bespoke mini games to stimulate motivation. Thanks to gamification, homework becomes a source of real inspiration that not only provides relief for the child but also helps them find pleasure in learning. In this way, Glaaster reconciles parents, children and homework and limits school drop-out rates, still a persistent problem among people with DYS disorders.
Antoine AUZIMOUR, CTO and co-founder of Glaaster, says
“Being dyslexic, I myself was in this situation when I was young. I had the good fortune of continuing my studies, urged on by my parents, and to become a specialist in AI. It is incredible how ideal this technology is for individual customization, as in this case with dyslexic children…”
How does it work?
There is no need to spend hours manually configuring a tool for often unreliable results. Glaaster is as easy to install and use as Instagram! You just have to install the Glaaster application on your smartphone, take a photo and transfer it to the Web platform. AI then takes over by extracting the text from the photo and correcting it automatically according to the child’s needs. This leaves just one thing left to do: learn while having fun!
An innovation drawn from neuroscience research and already tested successfully by healthcare professionals
Glaaster is collaborating with the Lyon Center for Neuroscience Research (CRNL), in particular Dr. Eddy CAVALLI and Dr. Alice GOMEZ, both known for their work in this field. Drawing on the center’s expertise, and through a three-year CIFRE doctoral thesis, Glaaster is acquiring the capacity to establish a cognitive profile of the user through a mini game, which trains the AI and proposes the ideal correction.
Glaaster is also backed by many speech therapy centers, around ten of which are already partners to test the platform on their patients.
About GlaasterBorn from the experience of one of its founders, Antoine, who suffered severely from dyslexia when he was young, Glaaster is his revenge on this disorder.As an expert in AI and dyslexia, this is all it took for the idea to come to him.
Glaaster is the first artificial intelligence applied to the world of neurosciences that helps children with dyslexic disorders to read.Thanks to its expertise in AI and its collaboration with the CRNL, Glaaster offers today a platform that can transform school texts to make them accessible to all from nothing but a photo, and regardless of the child’s disorders. To motivate children often hostile to schooling, Glaaster also turns homework into a game thanks to gamification.
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