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IESCUM srl Social Enterprise

Born as a study and research center, IESCUM aims to promote scientific study and the advancement of knowledge relating to human behavior understood in its broadest sense, including emotional, cognitive and verbal aspects. Particular attention is paid to psychological applications for the solution of practical problems as well as to the prevention and remedy of human suffering. There are two major research areas in which the psychological applications studied by IESCUM can be identified: Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT).

BEHAVIOUR LABS srls

Behavior Labs s.r.l.s. is a company that carries out research, development, production of hardware and software solutions in the applied social robotics sector, with highly technological solutions based on the use of robots in the digital health sector, for the treatment of autism syndrome, deficit of neurodevelopment, for the assistance of the elderly, and for the use of virtual reality in healthcare and teaching.

Technology and ABA have been an inseparable pair since Skinner’s first research in the 1950s. IESCUM and Behavior Labs evolve this tradition in the era of robots, virtual reality and artificial intelligence. Today, an application studied jointly allows you to conduct therapies even at a distance in the case of isolation (lockdown) or excessive distance from the center.

In the ABAxITALIA centers, the advancement of knowledge and its dissemination are the natural direct consequence of research. IESCUM engages with the national and international scientific community, publishing researches and monographs of its researchers and professors

TECHNOLOGY AND ABA INNOVATION AND RESEARCH ABA AND AUTISM

Applied Behavior Analysis (ABA) is an applied science that is based on the principles of Behavior Analysis, the result of nearly a century of research.

These principles have also proved particularly effective in enabling interventions on individuals diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

National and international guidelines identify ABA-based treatments as those of choice to improve intellectual, linguistic and communication skills and to develop adaptive behaviors, whatever the level of functioning.

The ABA xITALIA project was born with the intention of making scienti fi cly controlled interventions available to families, provided by highly trained professionals, according to the Italian Model of Early and Intensive Intervention in Autism (MIPIA). The interventions, based on the most modern application of new generation strategies, are provided at the IESCUM clinical centers and other authorized centers, which operate in the area under the supervision of the IESCUM Behavior Analysts).

Taking charge, which involves the team of IESCUM professionals, in the “ABAx project” provides for a first phase of evaluation, followed by the drafting of the individualized qualification plan. The intervention is articulated on the basis of educational needs, paying particular attention also to parents and to the interaction between family members, and the early intervention has as its primary objectives the development of communication skills, socialization, play, autonomy, pre- academic and academic.

Meetings with parents aimed at achieving speci fi c educational competences and psychological skills of resilience and collaboration with the school, aim to promote inclusion and facilitate the child’s participation in school activities and interactions with family members and peers.

Services

The specialists of the ABAxCATANIA Center deal with:

  • Intensive and early interventions in autism (0-6 years) and later (7-18 years)
  • Interventions in medium and high functioning autism.
  • Parent training
  • Interventions with brothers and sisters of people on the autism spectrum
  • Specific learning disorders – Specific language disorders
  • Special educational needs – Intellectual disability
  • Clinical disorders in developmental age and adolescence (eg: OCD, anxiety, ADHD)

The team

The team is made up of Case Managers, Analysts, Analyst Assistant and Behavior Technicians.

The professionals are psychologists with highly specialized qualifications: 1st and 2nd level ABA Masters, psychotherapy school and / or research doctorate.

IESCUM CENTERS ABAxITALIA

RoboMate, has thus obtained awards and recognitions from prestigious realities including:

The activity is entirely focused on the man-machine relationship in which the robot is not seen as a foreign entity but enters more and more into everyone’s daily life until it can be considered an innovative support in the treatment of autism, and for the support of Older people. The TREAT Project (Therapeutic Robot in Experimental Autism Therapy), also awarded by the startup incubator “Working Capital Telecom” in 2013, was born with this aim: it is an initiative aimed at creating a new experimental therapy for the treatment autism. It is based on the platform we invented “RoboMate ©” and on the programming of robots using some software made exclusively by our team, with the support of universities, research centers, teachers, doctors, and pedagogists.
The research team immediately realized how useful humanoid robots can be in the study of treatments concerning behavioral disorders. Thus began a path of study of specific cases and development of further applications for the various social robots, through “RoboMate”.

RoboMate, has thus obtained awards and recognitions from prestigious realities including:

2013: Grant of 25,000 euros from Working Capital Telecom;
2014: National Order of Engineers (3rd place at the Scintille’14 Award);
2014: Speaker “TEDx TransMedia” Geneva;
2014: “Tecnologia Solidale” guests, Chamber of Deputies;
2014: Finalists in the “Startup of the year – Science and Technology Parks award”, School
Sant’Anna University of Pisa;
2015: “Lions Day Award 2015” for technological innovation;
2015: “Feste Archimedee 2015” Award for social innovation.
2015: Finalists and TOP25 world company at the Interface Health Excellence Challenge Toronto contest
2015: Speaker “TEDx Matera”;
2015: Speaker “TEDx Assisi”;
2015: Guests “Revolution”, TV2000, television network of the Bishops’ Conference;
2015: Guests “I Fatti Vostri”, Rai Due;
2018: Second place “Digital Heart” Award Senate of the Italian Republic;
2018: Interview and weekly news about medicine of TG3, RAI Tre;
2019: Sixth Network Interview
2019: Videostar Interview.
2020: TG1 Medicina Service, RAI Uno;

Always active in the field of research, together with the Kore University of Enna, in July 2015 we presented a research document, in the form of a poster, entitled “TESTING THE FEASIBILITY OF A SOCIAL ROBOT DELIVERED CONDITIONAL DISCRIMINATION TRAINING.
ACBS World Conference 13 – Berlin 2015 “

Currently our “RoboMate” platform with more than 100 installations, (as of 2021), is in use in hospitals, health centers, research centers, social cooperatives, therapists, schools.

Some references:
2016: ASP of Catania, Provincial Health Authority
2018: “Cerradi” Center Trieste, IT
2019: IRCCS, Institute of Hospitalization and Scientific Care, Neurolesi “Bonino Pulejo” Messina
2019: ANFASS, Teramo Headquarters, IT
2020: “Villa delle Ginestre”, Rehabilitation Center, Volla, NA, IT
2020: IRCCS, Institute of Ric. and Scientific Care “House for Relief of Suffering”, San Giovanni Rotondo FG, IT
2020: Santa Caterina Novella Hospital in Galatina, ASL Lecce, IT
2021: Spazio Autismo, Mantua, IT

Virtual reality and augmented reality.

Development of virtual reality solutions for serious games, entertainment and healthcare. In collaboration with IESCUM and Kore University, we have developed a solution for the therapy of psychological trauma, and in July 2015 we presented a research paper, in the form of a poster, entitled “Virtual defusion is real defusion?” at the ACBS World Conference 13 – Berlin 2015.

Together with the University of Messina, in 2015, we developed a solution for the early diagnosis of Alzheimer’s.

In 2015, we began the development of an application, NiWell, in the wellness field, for the use of immersive virtual reality in fitness activities such as exercise bikes, steppers, treadmills, rowing machines. Niwell made it to the finals at the prestigious Technogym competition in 2015.

In 2016, we participated in the first “Scholas Labs Jam” wanted by Pope Francis, through “Scholas Occurrentes”, a body of pontifical right, creating the “SmartSpace” project for a school without virtual reality walls.

This love story begins with a passion rooted in our childhood: Marco and I, like many brothers, identified ourselves from an early age in the exploits of Daisuke, Hiroshi, Tetsuya and those who, since the end of the 70s, were animating those legendary Robots who in every episode they fought the forces of evil … Over the years our passion has led us to “command” even in reality our small fleet of robots (committing ourselves with dedication in the fight against an evil of our days).
In 2012 we created Behavior Labs srl: an innovative startup based in Catania to “give a soul” to a humanoid robot; the aim is in fact that automata and humans can coexist harmoniously in the name of mutual utility through edutainment and digital health solutions.
Our laboratories, strengthened by research and experimentation in the field, have quickly carved out an increasingly important position in the world of so-called “Health robotics” which today has to study disorders such as autism, developmental and behavioral deficits. Thanks to the consolidated partnership with the Kore University of Enna, with IESCUM, (European Institute for the study of human behavior), our reality – which studies to program the behavior of robots – is always looking for solutions that can improve quality. of the life of human beings.
The activity is entirely focused on the man-machine relationship in which the robot is not seen as a foreign entity but enters more and more into everyone’s daily life until it can be considered an innovative support in the treatment of autism, and for the support of Older people. The TREAT Project (Therapeutic Robot in Experimental Autism Therapy), also awarded by the startup incubator “Working Capital Telecom” in 2013, was born with this aim: it is an initiative aimed at creating a new experimental therapy for the treatment autism. It is based on the platform we invented “RoboMate ©” and on the programming of robots using some software made exclusively by our team, with the support of universities, research centers, teachers, doctors, and pedagogists.
The research team immediately realized how useful humanoid robots can be in the study of treatments concerning behavioral disorders. Thus began a path of study of specific cases and development of further applications for the various social robots, through “RoboMate”.