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We believe the open source approach provides advantages in helping engage a highly-motivated community of parents and researchers while providing outcomes that are freely accessible. This is particularly important given the lack of free resources available to children and adults with ASD. In addition, our open source software targets commoditized hardware with the goal of making the technologies we develop as widely available as possible.
Open Autism Software is housed at the University of Iowa"s Department of Computer Science. Our initial work was funded by the Iowa Department of Education through our University"s Regional Autism Services Program, one of the Child Health Specialty Clinics. We have conducted iterative development and evaluation of technologies at Hoover Elementary School in Iowa City with the help of the Grant Wood Area Education Agency, and at the Four Oaks afterschool program for children with Asperger"s syndrome located in Cedar Rapids. We also received f
