Designing for the Gap, Not the Child: What Changes When Assistive Technology Asks the Adult to Learn

• By: Shashank Madala Kora | Robbinsville High School
• August 26th, 2026
• assistive technology, autism research, caregiver support, communication gap, double empathy problem, emotion recognition, neurodiversity, technology
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My younger cousin was six when I understood the problem I would spend the next two years working on. He was upset about something that had happened in the next room, and the adults who loved him most — his parents and me — stood around him running a checklist. Was he hungry. Was he tired. Was...