ADV was founded by Michael Darden who has three sons, two of whom are autistic.  Autism is a spectrum of neurological and developmental disorders affecting millions of children and adults worldwide. This spectrum affects each diagnosed individual differently and often, determining the most effective treatment is difficult, expensive, and very frustrating.

In September 2006, the concept of A Deeper View was formed by the company's founder and President, Michael J. Darden.  A Deeper View is a Florida LLC. that started 'official' operations in March 2008. The company was born out of the consulting efforts of Darden Distribution & Warehouse Consulting Inc (DDWC), which has consulted in supply chain management and technology adoption for over 10 years. The driving emphasis of DDWC has been its approach of understanding the vision of the customer, determining the current conditions of the customers' company, and architecting a process flow and roadmap for achieving the defined goals. DDWC uses a proactive teambuilding approach of collaborative project management to produce definable and measured results.

A Deeper View has taken on the challenge of devising a web-based application to support the complexity of collecting information from observable behaviors and plotting them against past experiences to develop predictable results. The initial focus and designed use of the developed product is to assist in the treatment of children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD). In many of these children, the roadmap to follow for proactive treatment is often difficult to determine as traditional communication is typically lacking, and determining the effectiveness of different treatment approaches is very difficult to identify.

ADV is motivated by the vast number of children diagnosed with ASD, but specifically by Benjamin and Timothy (TJ), two of the Darden's children who were diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorders in 2001 and 2002. In 2006, after 5 years of extensive 'hired' therapy, Michael began an intensive study to observe and document the behaviors of Benjamin and TJ by recording and evaluating the behaviors of their 'free play'. After weeks of data collection, the amount of information collected was staggering. During the initial evaluation of the information, Michael realized how difficult it would be for a teacher, therapist, researcher or parent to keep up with this and that it would not be feasible for them to do without some 'smart tools' to help collect and evaluate the data.

The next 3 months consisted of building a prototype system to collect information from the home: location, activities, stimulus, behaviors, intervening treatments, diets, interaction with others, and use of the computer. The data was aggregated and trends jumped off the reports.

Items that caused overstimulation were removed, time lines for scheduled activities were implemented, and remarkable progress was achieved. It was noted that many times the adverse behaviors were caused by the lack of limiting activity. Setting limits and providing appropriate intervention can only be accomplished when the environment is conditioned to collect these patterns of behavior.

The focus changed to that of how to equip parents, caregivers, researchers, and teachers with a tool needed to collect the information on each child so this evaluation could be completed by the people who want more than anything, the best for their child.

Using his past business experience, Michael developed a business plan and technical specifications for a technology solution to be created that would allow for data to be transitioned into actionable and measurable results.  In researching the components for the envisioned solution, Michael discovered a publication that mentioned the 'KIHd System' and Dr. Michael Behrmann's work at George Mason University. 

The A Deeper View KIHd System is the result of those efforts.