Birdhouse is wrapping up its first year of providing a mobile/web solution for parents and caregivers of autistic children.
The West Bloomfield-based start-up is creating software that tracks the behavior of autistic children and helps the loved ones of autistic children manage the disorder. It is also looking to find news ways to leverage the data it's collecting to help further the fight against autism.
"We'd like to be working with organizations from around the country to use the data Birdhouse is collecting to better understand autism, and to give us more answers and better understanding of the disorder," says
Ben Chutz, founder of
Birdhouse.
Chutz was inspired to start the company las year because his girlfriend has a daughter with autism, exposing him to the trials and tribulations that come with it. Chutz is now hoping the data gathered from his technology, still in private Beta until this summer, will be able to help shed some light on whether nature (barometric pressure or tides) factors into the impact of autism.
"We're looking to crowd source the idea of collecting info on kids with autism," Chutz says.
Birdhouse currently has a team of three people and is looking to add two software developers to help bring its technology to market.
Source: Ben Chutz, founder of Birdhouse
Writer: Jon Zemke
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