A group of researchers at the Wingate Institute, Israel, found a 24% improvement in a child's performance when they participated in a gym-class intervention. Dr. Isaiah Hotzler, who led the study, used Timocco’s “Aliens in Space” game to capture and measure changes in attention among 22 third-graders diagnosed with ADHD before and after the intervention being studied. The “Aliens in Space” game is intended for kids aged 6-14 with ADHD (primary or secondary) or executive … [Read more...]
Thanks to your feedback, we’ve made some improvements
We've improved several games recently and I wanted to take a moment to thank the therapists and parents using Timocco who've given us feedback up until now - your thoughts, ideas, and experiences have been an invaluable resource to Timocco's development. Here are just some of the recent updates we've made, based on user feedback: Bubbles Game - You wanted to help kids with dyslexia; we created a setting which allows you to choose to show mirrored numbers, so a child must find the correctly … [Read more...]
Becky plays Timocco with her eyes!
Becky is a sweet 11 year-old with severe quadriplegic cerebral palsy. She loves playing on her computer (as you can tell from the video!). She also loves swimming, playing with her friends and having sleepovers! In order to use the computer, she uses Tobii – an eye gaze software which allows her to control the computer using only her eyes. In this video, made last year when Becky was 10, you can see Becky using only her eyes to play Timocco! … [Read more...]
Tim-Impact or Tim-Factor? Help us decide.
We at Timocco believe that the road to developing skills and abilities is built on a mountain of practice and fuelled by motivation. That belief is so strong, we built an entire product around the idea. :) When we started in the clinic environment, thousands of kids were being motivated to practice their skills using Timocco, of course the next step was trying to figure out how we could push kids to practice even more, so naturally we looked for a way to help therapists extend the clinic … [Read more...]