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International Need for School Communication Management? New Users in Shanghai, China Think So and Adopt iAbida for Autism Team Communication Manageme
Harpswell, ME (PRWEB) December 31, 2007 -- iAbida Inc. today announced that Special Education Consulting, Shanghai, China is using iAbida with parents and educators that work with an 8-year-old student with autism. iAbida's Individual Communication Management? system enables schools and parents to centralize communication through a password protected web application designed specifically for special needs students.
Parent Michael Boll says, "We use iAbida to replace paper-based daily communication journals between home and Shanghaii Educational Consulting. The speech therapist, physical therapist/occupational therapist and teacher all use iAbida for daily journals. We also store documents such as progress reports in iAbida for team access and plan on using the iAbida behavior tracking in the future."
"The needs of schools, therapists and parents to communicate together is universal," said Steve Johnson, founder of iAbida and also the father of a 12-year-old son with autism. "Having users in China is exciting and adds to users in the US, UK, Canada and Australia. We are dedicated to providing web 2.0 solutions to parents and professionals working with autism. iAbida is provided at no charge for individual users and at nominal rates for organizational accounts."
About iAbida, Inc.
iAbida, Inc. provides a free online solution to help schools, parents and other professionals communicate about special needs children -- including daily journals, behavior tracking, medication, calendar, video posting, diet recording, photo albums, questions and answers, emergency contact information, etc. iAbida has an organizational account for schools and free individual accounts for anyone that registers.
For more information about iAbida's software and services or to sign-up for free, visit www.iabida.com.
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