Sonzia

Sonzia engineers assistive technology for individuals with intellectual, learning and motor disabilities.

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Watch an update on the Kickstarter Campaign by Lucy: the Media Coordinator. Leave comments on what YOU want to see on the next update! 

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Sonzia

Sonzia engineers educational and therapeutic technology to meet the needs of those with autism and...

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K-12 Digital Curriculum Growing; Print Shrinking

“Curriculum publishers in K-12 have been shifting their product development to digital and away from print, according to Education Market Research, which surveyed around 100 publishers and manufacturers. The most common medium mentioned for delivering supplemental products was “online/digital” delivery; 82 percent of respondents cited that. Print followed with 65 percent.”

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Faculty Success Means Student Success: Supporting Online Faculty

“The push for “student success” is all around us. Today, new campus IT implementations, software development efforts, and academic program redesigns all seem conceived in the popular context of student success, or they are in some significant way connected to it. But what about the notion of “faculty success”?”

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Meet Annie, one of Sonzia’s Extended founders.

Annie is a cancer survivor and the reason Touch Easel exists. She is the daughter of the head of Sonzia’s R&D, Edison. Diagnosed with neuroblastoma at 14 months old, she ultimately lost her ability to walk, crawl, feed herself, and, most crushing of all, talk. She is now a very active, quick-witted teenager, but due to the side effects of her cancer and her life-saving surgery, she still lacks fine motor skills. It is difficult for Annie to use the "smart" technology most people take for granted; even today's largest tablets require remarkable dexterity to operate. Annie was lucky. She not only survived, she had one of the most brilliant technologists alive as a father. Edison has been building technology from scratch to interact with her since she was a baby. This time, Edison went one step further to build a tool accessible to all people with learning, motor, or intellectual disabilities. With Touch Easel, Annie is immersed in the connected, highly interactive world that had previously been closed off to her.  A world most of us take for granted. 

Stay tuned to learn more about Annie and Touch Easel!