Gwylan UK have developed Sleeping Lions, an app which aims to help children manage and regulate their mental and physical health.
Gwylan’s app guides an an emotionally overwhelmed child through a series of immersive games, exercises, and techniques designed to slow their breathing rate, enabling them to calm down without having to leave the classroom. This helps increase that child’s wellbeing, reduces the amount of education they miss, and enables schools to support more of their pupils emotionally.
Accelerate, a now-closed programme led by Life Sciences Hub Wales, in partnership with Cardiff University, Swansea University and UWTSD, provided Gwylan UK with the academic expertise and state-of-the-art facilities at the Assistive Technologies Innovation Centre (ATiC).
John Likeman, Director of Gwylan UK said:
“The Accelerate programme has been absolutely critical in supporting us. They have found ATiC and been able to supply us with a team of people that were able to understand what we wanted and to help us find out ways of achieving that. Without Accelerate there would be no product, it’s as simple as that, it would just be still an idea.”
