{"id":3986,"date":"2023-06-29T12:50:09","date_gmt":"2023-06-29T12:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/?post_type=report&p=3430"},"modified":"2023-12-06T08:22:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T08:22:57","slug":"in-the-health-service","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/innovationisrael.org.il\/en\/article\/in-the-health-service\/","title":{"rendered":"In the Health Service"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Maayan Shahar<\/strong>, CEO of SensPD<\/strong>, who came with a background in management and experience in founding companies, searched for a project with meaningful impact and value that she could connect to emotionally. After a joint friend acquainted her with Raffi Rembrand<\/strong>, the founder of SensPD, she realized that she had found exactly what she was looking for. “Rembrand is the father of a child with autism who has devoted his life to studying this field,” says Shahar. “His son was only diagnosed when he was 4 years old. Such a belated diagnosis wasn’t exceptional in the 1980s even though it was known already then that early intervention can significantly change the condition of a child on the autistic spectrum. Rembrand became what is known as a professional parent \u2013 an active, involved, learning parent \u2013 and became a real expert. Rembrand is an engineer who specializes in signal processing and that is also the technology we use. From the year 2000, he has been working fulltime as an independent researcher and collaborates with universities around the world in an effort to identify an objective, physical, quantifiable characteristic of autism that will enable early detection.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n Our interaction with the world consists of three stages. The first stage is signal registration \u2013 signals that are registered and received via the five senses. In other words, the information we smell, taste, hear, see and feel about the world is received as signals. The second stage is sensory perception. The information received via our senses undergoes a process of enhancement and filtering and reaches the brain stem. During the third stage, the information moves from the brain stem to the cortex for processing and decoding. Research has revealed and proved that in people with autism, the first stage works properly. In other words, the problem for autistic people starts in the second stage \u2013 the sensory perception stage \u2013 due to some disorder in the filtering process that is expressed in what we define as autism i.e., communication and behavioral problems.<\/p>\n\n\n\n “There is no doubt today that early intervention, available already from a very early developmental stage, changes the lives of those with autism,” Shahar clarifies. “The problem is that the diagnostic process of autism is behavior-based and is therefore only possible at a later age. That is exactly what we want to change. It’s important to remember that the behavior is a result, a symptom \u2013 and not the cause of the problem \u2013 so the focus on it as a diagnostic tool is therefore missing something. Our years of research will enable SensPD to measure the source, the sensory perception mechanism, which we believe causes the impaired functioning associated with autism.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\nEarly Detection of Autism has Dramatic Importance<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n