To deal with the increasing number of children with behavioral and learning challenges we need to provide practical training for professional caregivers. Currently, we are seeing a lack of opportunities for paraprofessionals to practice evidence-based caregiving strategies in a safe environment.

Our goal was to use artificial intelligence to create a training simulation for caregivers and parents who are dealing with children with learning and behavior challenges.

For this project we used supervised learning to teach Meebie object recognition similar to children studying with flashcards. When a caregiver works with Meebie they will find that his goal is to acquire physical affection. Every time his caregiver gives him attention, he will adjust his behavior to get more of the much needed physical attention.