For Investors - Introduction We will be
teaching a particular Chinese martial art to people with autism with
the expectations that the students will be healthier, their families
will find working toward the goal of a college degree fulfilling, and
that the daily scores will provide a quantitative basis to evaluate
changes in sleep, diet and medications. We wished to use
cameras with innovative software to determine if there was a correlation between various
movements and emotions. As scoring each set for each student on a
daily basis is labor-intensive, we wanted to explore using the
cameras and their software to analyze postures as well. Had such an analysis
been feasible,
it would have had applications in a number of other sports. There were
manifest difficulties with facial expressions especially in the autism
and we reamin unimpressed with camera precision at the range that we
need. Our curriculum
material makes intensive use of video, but is language-independent, so
translating lesson plans and obtaining teachers is all that is
required to expand to other countries. Estimates vary from 4 to 12
million people with autism in the United States and well over 150
million world-wide. Rather than reject students we have been obliged
to expand the disability categories of interest to us. This currently
includes, among others, ataxia, cerebral palsy, arthrogryposis
and Down syndrome. This means one million people in California, 10
million in the United States, 55 million in China and 250 million on
Planet Earth. We are looking for
1. a short-term
loan (six months; $30,000) to get the first school built out. 2. if someone
has a small building we could lease with an option to buy it would
make our lives somewhat simpler