Story on 60 minutes this Sunday (Oct 23, 2011) about autism and iPads

[SueM in MN]

Thought some of you might be interested to see this story:
http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385402n&tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel

 

[browneyes106]

Thanks for posting that link. A friend of mine has a son with autism. He is verbal. She told me a months about communications apps that are used by non-verbal autistics.

 

[SueM in MN]

One that I know is being featured is Proloquo2Go. I know the co-developers of the app - one of them was interviewed for the 60 minutes program

 

[Disneylvr]

I saw this story! We bought an iPad for our daughter a couple of months ago and have a few apps on it that help her communicate and learn lessons. And now her school is writing a grant to get one there for her as well! I want to get the Proloqou2Go app ASAP!

 

[lucigo]

A friend of mine just got her son one about 2 weeks ago for his 10th birthday. The first major breakthrough has been that he is exploring the camera. He will take videos and pictures of people and then study them, and he will turn the camera on himself and say things and then listen to what he has said, and he is imitating dancing and singing now.

Several of my son's friends with autism have ipod touches. They actually love trading ipods and exploring what kind of apps their friends have. We just came back from an autism group cruise and the first thing we had to do was find Peggle and download it, while another mom had to get Monkeyball for her son because of us. Of course we all have tons of autism apps...but thats not what they gravitate toward.