A health care delivery and monitoring system including a robotic figurine with a furry layer, having components and a mechanism that facilitates robotic motion and communication. The components includes a speaker, a motor assembly, a battery, control circuitry, a video camera, speech generator, a communication interface, a network interface and a speech detector operatively connected with each other. The video camera and the wearable device cooperate to enable the robotic figurine to observe the user. The system leverages data from the various digital devices of the patients and other 3.sup.rd party syndicated sources to derive insights and enable the delivery of personalized care to the patients. The network interface being connected via a network to a computer, which utilizes the derived insights to provide instructions to the figurine including gesture and voice commands that enable effective care delivery.

A cognitive system is provided which includes an interactive device, such as a toy, for communicating with a user. The cognitive system includes different levels of communication capability for communicating with the user via the interactive device. The system adjusts from one level of communication capability to another level of communication capability of the different levels of communication capability based on occurrence of one or more specified conditions of user communication with the interactive device. For instance, the different levels of communication capability may include multiple levels of language capabilities, and the one or more specified conditions may include one or more language-based interaction conditions, time-based interaction conditions, or physical-based interaction conditions of the user with the interactive device.

In a patient simulator, in particular a premature baby, newborn or child simulator, including a simulated thorax, a pneumatic lung simulator and a simulated trachea leading to the lung simulator, wherein the simulated thorax includes a simulated chest including at least one liftable and lowerable chest element to simulate lifting and lowering of the chest, the at least one liftable and lowerable chest element cooperates with a lifting and lowering mechanism actuatable independently of the lung simulator.

The disclosed embodiments provide an apparatus and methods for assisting individuals in controlling respiratory rates. For example, a respiratory regulation apparatus is provided in the form of a plush animal toy that operates components to simulate the breathing rate of anxious individuals. The apparatus may include actuators that are controlled by a slotted cam that is dynamically rotated at varying speeds in a determined rotational direction. The actuators move inward and outward in relative directions to move a torso of the plush animal toy to simulate breathing. In certain aspects, actuators may expand outward while at the same time another actuator contracts inward to cause the torso to simulate realistic breathing movements. A processor controls the speed of the cam such that the simulated breathing of the animal toy apparatus can be reduced at a controlled rate to assist an individual in reducing their breathing rate to a calmer state.

An apparatus, in a storage configuration, a pillow with a length and a width, and in an unfolded configuration, the pillow unfolds and comprises a first panel, the first panel including a first side and a second side, the first side of the first panel the second side of the first panel including a first coverlet and a second coverlet, the first coverlet enveloping at least half of the length of the pillow, the second coverlet enveloping at least a portion of the pillow not enveloped by the first coverlet; and a second panel, the second panel including a first side and a second side, the first side of the second panel including graphics depicting a scene.

A cord management device is provided and includes a first section, wherein the first section includes two top portion second openings configured to receive one or more blades of an electrical plug and a top portion third opening configured to receive at least one of a USB plug and a blade of the electrical plug. The two top portion second openings are located to represent eyes of the animal and/or cartoon figure and the top portion third opening is located to represent a mouth of the animal and/or cartoon figure. A third section is provided and includes a curvilinear structure shaped to represent a tail of the animal and/or cartoon figure. A second section is provided and located between the first section and the third section, wherein the second section includes one or more second section top protrusions and/or one or more bottom protrusions.

An educational doll assembly includes a doll that has a body, a neck extending upwardly from the body and a head that is movably coupled to the neck. The neck extends upwardly into the head such that the head is rotatable about the neck. The head has a plurality of faces thereon and each of the faces is structured to resemble different ethnicities of human beings. The head is rotatable such that a selected one of the faces is aligned with the body of the doll. An audio unit is coupled to the doll and the audio unit stores a plurality of spoken words in a plurality of different languages. The audio unit emits the spoken words in a language corresponding to the ethnicity of the selected face on the head. In this way the audio unit teaches a user about the language spoken by the ethnicity on the selected face.

This describes a treatment method for autism/ASD intended to encourage greater eye contact by affected children. The treatment method incorporates an artificial demonstration of the phenomenon of eye contact, and that method is described herein along with the principles of action of the treatment and the necessary procedure to perform it. Also described are two embodiments of the physical portion of the invention that can be used for the demonstration: first, an item in the form of a cuboid with animatronic eyes affixed to one side that most purely reflects the principles behind the treatment, and second, another in the form of a stuffed toy that is perhaps more practical.

A system and method for a therapeutic apparatus that includes an external casing of a first therapeutic apparatus, wherein the external casing comprises of a plush body, the external casing comprising at least one compartment; a therapeutic module system that comprises of a set of interaction devices and a wireless communication system, wherein the therapeutic module system may be removably oriented into the at least one compartment; the set of interaction devices comprising of: sensing inputs that comprise of a auditory sensing system, a haptic sensing system, an olfaction sensing system, and other biosensing systems, and output systems that comprise of at least an auditory feedback and haptic feedback systems; and a processing system that comprises configuration to assess the state of a subject through the sensing inputs and control the output systems in response to the sensing inputs.