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Three weeks passed since Shannon Rosa over the numbers on their tiny blue raffle ticket looked hatte.Wie many other parents she had a real chance of winning, but the school not agreed to cough up $ 5, because you thought you had to support.
Now, as you in your Honda Odyssey in a Redwood City parking sat, rang about to pick up some tacos for the family, your Handy.Es was Secretary. Pink won the prize draw.
Alone in your van, she screamed. Then you directly to Clifford school, drove to take to claim their prize: a sparkling new iPad.
Although Rosa already owned an iPod touch, you had to deliberately kept the iPad,. Is no "early adopter"; she loves to wait until the kinks are worked out. But for $ 5, you don't mind have, with a bit the iPad home.Perhaps it wants to Leo.
Leo is Rosa's 9-year-old son, and if you ask people about him, it is aware to explain him that set appropriate expectations.He is a boy with intensive autism, says sie.Er is not conversational, he learns very slowly, and he was prone to violent outbursts. He is essentially a triple-sized Kleinkind.Leo had interest in the iPod touch, but his 3, 5 inch screen was difficult to navigate for his fingers.
For all these reasons, Rosa had no expectations, if her son was the iPad - a half - inch - thick, touch screen Tablet PC three times the size of your smaller cousin, the iPod. Although scrolling is easy through the symbols for most users, the device with special needs was not created consumer in mind.
Flower box Leo took it small hands in his as if it were an old friend and how a technology virtuoso, his mother he gasped in Erstaunen.Nachdem began spending 30 minutes at a time for apps that to teach spelling, continued with almost no training through its apps include, drawing, puzzles, memory of pictures and much more make you on your own computer.
"With the iPad Leo electrifies the air around him around with independence and new skills," Rosa, an entry for BlogHer, a blogging network of women for what you edits and writes entered into.Your blog was one of the first widespread public attention on what an expert has called, "a quiet revolution" for the autism community.
Since the iPad's revelations in April autism experts and parents have gebracht.Entwickler it in countless homes and classrooms around the world have pumping out applications that are specifically designed for users with special needs, and first studies measuring the effectiveness of the iPod touch already started and the iPad as learning tools for children with autism. Some of these kids were their thoughts to communicate to adults for the first time through the devices.Others have learned, life skills you for years had withdrawn.
Although other computers it designed for children with autism, a growing number of experts say that the iPad is better.It is cheaper, faster, more versatile, user friendly, more portable, more appealing and infinitely cooler for young people."I could imagine not introduce it to a parent who has a child who has autism", says Tammy Mastropietro, a therapist outside Boston, which used the technology with numerous clients.She sees it as a game changer for those with autism, especially those in the most affected.
"Pink is true.""I don't usually sound in miracle-speak,"says"but I can build a small altar to Steve jobs in the corner of our living room."
Hand in hand, Shannon Rosa, Craig Rosa and her children, Leo, India, and Gisela meandered through the ferry building in San Francisco the last one afternoon.Leo solved amidst the wafting aromas of strong coffee and freshly baked bread from the grip of his Schwestern.Er skipped sideways, beat on the stomach and squealed.
Finding a table Rosa began to extract some Acme bread items."Leo went gefüllt.Er could the pieces in his mouth faster than he can chew food packed to the wild.Er took his Croissant, ripped it and its Familie.Er crouched under the table and tried to eat out of the ground.""" More, please,"he said desperate.""Thank you, please."
Excursions can a challenge as follows for the Rosas sein.Ohne which would be its ability to occupy Leo iPad tour virtually impossible in particular has it a hard time behaves to food, which is a commonly used phrase for what wird.Meistens, formally known as Asperger syndrome typical for a child "on the spectrum" but just call autism it people.
Scientists know little about autism, but generally you agree, that developmental brain disease manifests itself in three ways: communication deficits, social incompetence and obsessive Verhaltensweisen.Im last year of the Centers for disease control found that one of almost 100 children in the United States was born on the spectrum.
Some on this extensive range are more productive, happy and even brilliant Erwachsene.Oft are that people said Asperger syndrome or pervasive developmental disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS).
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