Posted on 15/12/2014

Cognitive remediation

Vis-à-Vis (“face-to-face”) is a computer program for teaching key social-emotional and cognitive skills to children and adolescents. After years of research and testing, it is now available in French, English, and Italian.

Vis-à-Vis focuses on emotion recognition, working memory and focusing on the eyes of the face, three cognitive areas that often present problems for children and adolescents with socio-emotional impairment, as in the case of autism, 22q11.2 deletion/DiGeorge syndrome. It is also effective with children having a general developmental delay and/or learning difficulties. The part of the program that targets working memory reinforces important prefrontal networks in the brain and increase students’ mental flexibility, capacity for academic material and attention and concentration.

The program is a non-profit project developed at the University of Geneva under the leadership of Dr. Bronwyn Glaser and financed by the Fondation Dora, a Swiss foundation.

You can access the program on the website www.visavis.unige.ch, as well as a video and information about the program. Clicking on the image below will take you directly there.