It leverages a weighted silicon gripper that can be tweaked to adapt to the child’s learning stages, training their sensory-motor skills.

Intentionally designed to have a curved surface, textured lines and circles on the gripper will guide its users toward the first stage of pencil-gripping. Once users have adapted to the gripping stance, they can move on to the adapting stage. Here, the gripper can be turned 180 degrees to support the fingers, while establishing the correct way to hold the pencil.

As children with ASD have a short attention span, they generally learn at a slower pace than normal children. Hence, MA-Pencil is also designed to cultivate ASD children’s interest via 10-second alternating audio producing the sound of mammal animals to encourage its user. Built-in speakers are also placed on the pencil’s various cap shapes that are designed to look like the trunk of an elephant, the tail of a tiger, and the ears of a rabbit. They can all be switched out depending on the user’s preference.