Case study · Emirsfoundation
Emirsfoundation uses SuperChild in every group, every day.
Emirsfoundation is a Dutch youth-care (jeugdzorg) organization for children with autism, severe learning difficulties (ZML) and intellectual disability (LVB). It was one of the first to adopt SuperChild across the whole organization.
- 50,194
- learning trials
- 23
- children
- ~1,000
- staff hours saved
The challenge
About six learning trials per child, per hour.
Dutch youth care is group-based. A care group usually has two staff, and 1-on-1 therapy is rarely funded. When one or two children need intensive attention, teaching time for the rest of the group drops. Skills like language and learning-to-learn have to be taught trial by trial, at a much higher rate than that.
How it works
Several children practice at once, each at their own level.
Each child uses SuperChild for about 15–30 minutes a day, alongside staff-led treatment. The AI model is European and hosted locally.
The program
The AI Pedagogue splits each target into skills of about ten levels, from errorless at the bottom to independent mastery at the top. Each level has its own mastery criterion and holds 5–50 trials.
The sessions
Children practice on tablets in 15–20 minute sessions. The AI Guide presents tasks, records every trial, reinforces with reward videos and tokens, and moves the child up once a level is mastered.
The staff
Staff follow every session on a live dashboard and step in when a child gets stuck. Afterward, they practice the same concepts in daily situations: at the table, during play, with peers.
The results
What the data shows.
children across multiple groups
learning trials in ~187 hours of session time
trials per child, 44× the ~6 in standard group care
average trial accuracy
skill levels mastered
staff hours to deliver the same trials by hand
A learning trial is one logged task and response, the same as a trial in ABA data. For reference, one person working 1-on-1 tops out around 100 trials per hour. In group care, one staff member with ~8 children delivers about 50 per hour in total.
Staff survey
Scores out of 10 from the staff.
overall satisfaction
child engagement
fit in the group routine
would recommend
contribution to development
more effective in less time
“What convinces me is that we suddenly offer a multitude of development opportunities in the same amount of time, without deploying extra people. This is an enrichment of care at a scale that simply wasn’t humanly possible.”
“Because the children work independently with SuperChild, we as supervisors get room to work on more development goals at the same time — for more children at once.”
“As a parent it does me a lot of good to see how my twins are developing positively. Thanks to SuperChild at Emirsfoundation they get the guidance and opportunities they need to grow, build more confidence, and develop their talents.”
Since then
Now running at more Dutch organizations.
SuperChild now runs at several organizations in the Netherlands, in day programs and outpatient services. It suits most children in the autism and LVB population. For about 4% it was less suitable, for example when the token system didn't work as a reinforcer. SuperChild is ISO 27001 and ISO 9001 certified, and it supports staff-led treatment rather than replacing it.
Next step
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