{"id":13335,"date":"2015-05-05T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/?p=13335"},"modified":"2015-05-05T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-05T12:00:19","slug":"r-adam-kern-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/r-adam-kern-12\/","title":{"rendered":"R. Adam Kern \u201912"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Adam-Kern.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-13317\" src=\"https:\/\/clemson.world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Adam-Kern-495x400.jpg\" alt=\"Adam Kern\" width=\"448\" height=\"362\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Using technology to improve quality of life for children with special needs<\/strong><br \/>\nAdam Kern \u201912 was working with autistic students as a behavioral therapist when he found himself frustrated with the lack of technological tools to help his clients.<br \/>\n\u201cEvery day I went to work, knowing that technology exists that could improve my clients and their family\u2019s quality of life, but that technology hadn\u2019t been applied to help them,\u201d said Kern, who graduated from Clemson\u2019s Eugene T. Moore School of Education with a degree in secondary education.<br \/>\nOut of this experience, Kern co-founded ExcepApps, a startup focused on creating technological tools to benefit children with special needs.<br \/>\n\u201cIn 2014, we have technology like the PS3 or the XBOX One, but our advances in technology aren\u2019t being used to help the children who could benefit from it the most,\u201d said Kern, who lives in Mauldin. \u201cExcepApps seeks to change that.\u201d<br \/>\nExcepApps released its first product, Color Countdown, in August. Color Countdown is a simple tool that works by representing time through colors, shapes and numbers, Kern said. He and his business partner, Ryan Poplin, designed the product to help individuals with transitions, task behavior and time management.<br \/>\n\u201cColor Countdown is a tool that I wished existed while I was a therapist,\u201d Kern said. \u201cIt can be used in a classroom when completing time sensitive assignments, in a therapy session or during every day tasks.\u201d<br \/>\nExcepApps\u2019 second product \u2014 a communication tool designed to allow parents, teachers and therapists to track a child\u2019s language development as they learn to speak \u2014 launched in November. ExcepApps created the tool for non-vocal children who already rely on technology to communicate, Kern said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using technology to improve quality of life for children with special needs Adam Kern \u201912 was working with autistic students as a behavioral therapist when he found himself frustrated with the lack of technological tools to help his clients. \u201cEvery day I went to work, knowing that technology exists that could improve my clients and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":13317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[21],"tags":[105,289,785,1138,2692],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-13335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumniprofiles","tag-adam-kern","tag-autistic-students","tag-color-countdown","tag-excepapp","tag-spring-2015"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2015\/04\/Adam-Kern.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13335"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clemson.world\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=13335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}