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April 23, 2014 09:16 pm GMT

Delian Asparouhov: A Cure for Better Care

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When you love what you do for work, it doesn’t feel much like work. When you focus your attention on something that elicits the best of your abilities and puts you at the center of an inspiring, innovative community… that sounds more like fun. When that something has the potential to help countless individuals in a meaningful way — and the idea was born out of your very own head — that’s called “living the dream.” Perhaps that’s why bright-eyed, Salt Lake City-raised, Bulgarian MIT dropout and Thiel Fellow Delian Asparouhov smiles so often

Asparouhov has every reason to be pleased. The startlingly bright 20-year-old leads up Nightingale, an app that helps behavioral therapists effectively track data of children with autism. “A therapist can easily monitor how long a child has a tantrum, how often he gets up from his seat and how well he listens to direction,” he says. “The software is currently in its beta stages, but we have people using it on a daily basis. Higher ups in the autism world have been really rallying behind it. I’m pretty excited.” By employing a powerful, Intel-based tablet, they can keep better track of multiple childrens' behavior, and experience greater ease while inputting complicated data. Read more...


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