This week I read a blog post by my professional experience tutor Matthew Kearney. Matthew posted a fascinating post about how the latest developments in assistive technologies are giving children with disabilities such as autism a way to communicate. Along with the post was a wonderful video, which shows how these technologies are giving these children a voice. You can read Mathews post and watch the video here. The video showcases how Apples latest developments- the Ipod touch and Ipad are being used with specialized apps to give children with autism possibilities to communicate. This is being achieved through the use of pictures apps on their ipod touch and ipad. For example the child can communicate that they would like something to eat through clicking on a picture of food on their ipad or ipod touch.
I found this video really interesting and heart warming that the advances in technology are giving children with disabilities a voice that they have never had before. These tools would be fantastic in the classroom, if there was to be a child with special needs such as autism. These technologies would allow the child to communicate with the teacher and their peers as these developments can overcome the limitations that children with autism suffer from including difficulties in social interaction and impaired communication.
Image Source: Shields, L. (2010) iPad Dream # 3 [photograph]. Retrieved from http://www.flickr.com/photos/50064005@N00/5066006163
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