Click to viewThe iPad , and other tablets like it , may in reality be a magic and radical equipment after all . Because at leastin this instance , it ’s give a handicapped 7 - year former boy the ability to communicate with the existence .
Owen Cain lives with spinal muscular wasting Type 1 , a motor - neuron disease that that leaves him largely paralyzed , silent , and prone to contagion . He ’s still able to read , though , and write and do maths . And with the iPad , he ’s able to do all of those things with much more ease than ever before .
It turn out that in accession to being an effective communication tool — with its large blind and diverse software option — the iPad is also in general less expensive than many consecrate therapeutic equipment that seek to accomplish the same task . For Owen , the sensitive touchscreen intend he can flip out through the pages of Alice in Wonderland on his own , and apps like Proloquo2Go help him communicate full ideas and needs with a unmarried silver screen tap .
And the computer keyboard , though a little too broad for Owen ’s limited compass of motion , helped him tell his parent that he wanted to be Han Solo for Halloween . For his parent , that ’s some kind of magic . [ NY Times ]
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