COMMUNICATION AND COLLABORATION

interCom

In development

A direct connection between families and centres.

The people who share daily life with an autistic person and those who support them at a centre have much to tell each other. interCom aims to make that exchange easier and give information a shared place.

interCom

Family
Centre

Shared information

The idea: keeping the conversation open.An outline of the project, currently in development.

interCom is in development and is not yet available. This page introduces the idea and the goals guiding its creation.

Why interCom began

In my experience as a dad, I have often encountered fragmented information and exchanges between family and centre that depended on individual availability. Sharing what happens at home and understanding what happens during support can take a great deal of effort.

This is where interCom began: one of Andy’s Project’s most ambitious ideas. The aim is to build a shared channel where information gathered by families and professionals can come together around the same person.

A channel between family and centre

The project aims to organise the exchange of information and make it more continuous. These are our starting goals:

Gathering observations
Making room for information from both the family and the centre, for a fuller picture of everyday life.
Finding what has been shared
Organising information in a shared place, reducing its spread across separate channels.
Supporting conversation
Giving professionals information useful to their work and making dialogue with families easier.

A project to build together

The direction is a tool for computers, smartphones and tablets, close to the ways families and centres already communicate. Features and access arrangements will take shape during development.

If you are part of this exchange every day, as a family member or a professional, we want to understand what is missing and what might help. Listening to the people who will use interCom is part of the path we want to build.

Your experience can help us.

Have you had a similar experience? Do you have an idea or a skill to share? I’d be glad to hear from you.

Let’s talk ↗

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