Its effectiveness with autistic kids is truly extraordinary. The tools for these kids have previously been expensive and limited -- one hard- core autistic kid in my son's class communicates primarily with an electronic board decked out with a few dozen physical buttons labelled with icons. These devices cost several thousand dollars, and some are inflexible in the communication they permit (imagine limiting yourself to a vocabulary of 50 icons). There are a number of iPad applications providing the same kind of functionality but with much greater flexibility and expandability, at a vastly lower price. Beyond that, there are autism-specific applications like "social story" apps that help kids understand what happens in typical social situations, like going for a haircut or visiting friends. And autistic kids do well with the same kinds of apps that neurotypicals do, like games and YouTube, so that gives them a common bond with others.
Apple and Steve are prone to ballyhoo -- they're selling stuff after all -- but the autism community has genuinely picked up the iPad and run with it in a big way. --Chris On Mar 3, 12:25 pm, Carl Jokl <carl.j...@gmail.com> wrote: > There was some stories from individuals. The one where the Woman > started saying "I define a miracle as being". I felt just a tad > uncomfortable with any piece of electronics being hailed as a miracle > but I may be being oversensitive about it. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to javaposse@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to javaposse+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
