e-Mintza for Android

11 things about e-Mintza

1. The evaluation with real users continued over a nine month period considering parameters such as the adaptation of pictograms, the size of the photos, the motor capacity of the user, real communicative utility and not so much a recreational tool, the manageability and educative functionality, among other aspects.

2. e-Mintza (which in Euskera means electronic speech) is a free downloadable program that shows communication display with pictograms or associated images and sounds that allow a direct and simple communication.

3. The display is easily customisable as far as the language used is concerned, texts, images, videos or sounds, based on the necessities of the user, who will be able to preferablyinteract using a touch screen on a tablet type device, but also using a conventional mouse on a computer.

4. Thus, for example, it may be useful for deaf children who have not yet acquired a language, people with serious intellectual discapacities, patient with cerebral damage caused by traumas or accidents, senior people with degenerative neuro diseases, people that cannot express themselves, who may require intubation or assisted ventilation during their stay in hospital, etc.

5. - The authorising tool: from which, the tutor (familiar, therapist or similar) or the user themselves, will be able to personalize e-Mintza and to create the communication adapted to the specific individual needs of each person.

6. Considering a beginning to ensure communication for people with autism, on who the application has been tested, the program can be used by other many people, given its high customisation capacity.

7. e-Mintza is a customisable and dynamic system of augmentative and alternative communication aimed at people with autism or with oral or written communication barriers.

8. Carlos Elósegui of the Policlínica Gipuzkoa, it allows the user to communicate with other people by means of tactile and multimedia technology, adapting to the necessities of its users easily.

9. The agenda is emphasised among the new features incorporated after the evaluation with the users, in which the user can locate a temporary planned sequence of up to six activities a day, a week or a period of time.

10. The technical development of e-Mintza was done by Nesplora, counting on essential evaluation on the part of the Gautena Autism Association during the different phases of the project.

11. Being able to add or edit, new pictograms, photographs or sounds in any category and in a simple way.