Seeing your child communicate with the world is one of the greatest wishes of parents of children with disabilities. And this achievement was made possible by the use of technologies that help students learn in the public school system in a city named Recife, Brazil.
Diagnosed with cerebral palsy at birth, Amanda Cabral, 10, is in her fifth year of elementary school and is now able to express herself because of our educational solution called Key-X. he writes his name and goes to class with his classmates, and is no longer invisible. Key-X is a set of hardware and software tools that enable individuals with physical, motor, and intellectual disabilities to use computers and mobile devices effectively for communication, learning, games, and life with greater autonomy.
It consists of an exclusive design device (the Key-X itself) that basically functions as a keyboard and mouse for anyone who does not have fine motor coordination or any limb movement ability.
By using the Key-X and its accessories, people can even use the blink of an eye or light body gestures to learn lessons, write, access the internet, communicate, or play. In Recife, where it was installed, we have more than 400 children with disabilities, including Down syndrome, different degrees of autism, physical and motor deficiencies and are now learning. Some of them went back to the regular Classroom. The social impact was so high that the project was a semifinalist of King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa at UNESCO. Inclusive education seeks to ensure that all students, with or without disabilities,
participate actively in school activities and in their community. From this inclusive perspective, Google applications can mean technologies that culminate in ways of teaching and learning that make the interaction between teacher and student the fundamental point of the learning process, respecting the individual pace of learning. With the Key-X solution, we issued the first google certificate in Brazil for people with disabilities.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CEMJNzfpmg

• Brazil
• United States of America

• People with disabilities
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Children between 5 and 12
• Children under 5
• Elderly

Wherever we find a school with children with disabilities we can do the same process. We solve the problem of people with disabilities that are unable to use computers and mobile devices due to motion limitations or lack of fine motor coordination. The innovation of our solution resides in its design, built to fit a wide variety of motion limitations while being compatible with any computer (and even smartphones and tablets).
To better understand our technology, we really encourage everybody to look at some videos because "Seeing is Believing" in our case.
Key-X and its accessories give autonomy, privacy, and empower people with disabilities to use technology. They will be able to communicate and learn. And by doing that, we bring them to our technological world and open all the exponential possibilities they have. We are disrupting special education with our platform.
It all started with Gleisson. He was born with cerebral palsy and graduated in Computer Science in a small town in Brazil. He was able to learn and graduate by using a "head pointer". As soon as he graduated, he had an idea to enable a better access to his computer and he created the concept of the "Nine key keyboard". Later, we started working with him to turn the idea into a real solution to be used by ALL people with motor and physical disabilities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyGlsovg58k
As soon as the keyboard turned into a real product, after 2 years of prototyping, we went to the field. We went inside schools and associations to test it- and it was amazing! The acceptance was immediate. Julia was not attending classes because her teachers could not measure how much she could learn. As soon as she got our keyboard, she got back to the classroom WITH HER CLASSMATES. This was the most important step because she is no longer isolated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QihHpG_X498
The same thing that happened to Julia happened with kids in Recife. It is totally scalable and replicable.

We have a product that can be used for several purposes. One of them is education. And we know that it is the base for everything. We can teach music using Key-x. We can teach the alphabet. We can find Minimal brain dysfunction or specific learning disability with the gamification process we developed. We can make the children be more interested in learning using TiX lights and symbols. We have only in Brazil more than 1 Million children with disabilities inside schools. They do not have anything similar to our solution that can unleash their power almost immediately. We can prove to the world that these kids have many other abilities than we imagine. We have many real cases already. We can also empower disabled people and their families, also health and education professionals and institutions like rehabilitation clinics and schools for them to know how to unlock their knowledge!

In addition to generating a positive impact and strengthening institutional ties between the investor and the public education system, our educational program provides greater visibility, accountability, publicity and admiration by the general public. By supporting a particularly humanitarian cause, it also opens up with this impact investment, the opportunity to qualify productive labor and, consequently, to increase the employability of Persons with Disabilities, in compliance with the Quotas Law (Law 8,213 / 91) and in line with ONU SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Development) and SDG 10 (Reducing Inequalities). In this perspective, the purpose of the Program is also aligned with Agenda 2030's SDG4 (Quality Education).

Without the use of technology in teaching people with disabilities, the response is much slower and that is exactly what we want to change. In addition to children and adolescents, teachers also benefit directly from the use of technology.
The goal of SDG 4 is the quality of education and will be doing so with the special education that is so scarce tools.

Our Solution brings to people lives and to all the people that live with or around someone with any disability, the common desire and commitment to build a people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society, where everyone can create, access, utilize and share information and knowledge, enabling individuals, communities and peoples to achieve their full potential in promoting their sustainable development and improving their quality of life, premised on the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and respecting fully and upholding the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We are aligned with all Declaration of Principles at http://www.itu.int/net/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html