Floreo visit to the Dan Marino Foundation!

By Vijay | Sep 15, 2022

Recently, I was able to visit a true pioneer in serving the autistic community, the Dan Marino Foundation. Founded 30 years ago when autism awareness & acceptance was nothing like today, the Dan Marino Foundation has been ahead of its time, focused on services around independent living and employment as autistic kids become adults and when services start to fall off the cliff. More than that, the Marino Foundation has been on the cutting edge of technology developing novel applications including virtual reality based for areas such as driving instruction and job interviewing.

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We are so excited to be partnering with the Dan Marino Foundation and their technology arm QL TechWorks. On my visit to South Florida, we also were able to meet with our innovative customer, Nicklaus Children's Health System. Our meeting was at the jawdropping accelerator space in Ft. Lauderdale, the Alan B. Levan | NSU Broward Center of Innovation built as a public/private partnership between Nova Southeastern University and Broward County. Special thanks to the DMF leadership team for hosting me!

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I am thrilled to be able to get out to meet more of our partners and customers and hope my travels bring me to your organization soon too!

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What have we been reading this week?
NEWS ROUND-UP

NIH awards $100 million for Autism Centers of Excellence Program
Studies of autism tend to exclude women, researchers find
A New Jersey family celebrated an educational triumph
The impact of a positive autism identity and autistic community solidarity on social anxiety and mental health in autistic young people

About the Author

Vijay

Inspired by his experience as an autism father and his child’s first experience with VR, Vijay Ravindran founded Floreo. Vijay started his career as an engineer and leader at Amazon in its early retail days before dedicating himself to impact-oriented leadership opportunities that have taken him from building key voter technology used by the Obama campaign in 2008 to Chief Digital Officer at The Washington Post Company. Vijay lives in Washington DC with his wife, two Star Wars obsessed kids, and hundreds of Transformers robots which he doesn’t let his kids play with. Outside of work, when he’s not rooting on his beloved Oklahoma Sooners, you can find him on the tennis courts.