Those with the know-how are able to create apps based on their child’s specific needs. The accessibility of online stores as a platform for apps has opened a new avenue for parents.
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Similarly, dozens of assistance and education autism apps have sprung up on tablets and other devices running Google’s Android operating system.
About half of them reported improved speech abilities.Ī search for “autism apps” for the iPad in Apple’s App Store brings 764 hits. Many apps are designed based on this method of therapy.ĭavid Niemeijer, founder and CEO of Amsterdam-based AssistiveWare, creator of Proloquo2Go, said that 90% of AAC users use an iPad for communication, and more than 25% use an iPhone or iPod Touch, according to the company’s surveys.
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Proloquo2Go was Sharia’s first app and the first real augmented communication app, released first for iPhones in 2009.ĪAC, or augmentative and alternative communication, is a series of interventions used to help children with severe communication disorders communicate. She soon learned to put together short sentences like “I want Dora” to express what she wanted. However, through therapy and at home, she was introduced to apps such as Proloquo2Go, First Words, ABCs and Me and Puzzle Me, to name a handful. She knows she doesn’t need to cry, she needs to point.”Īt first, Sharia enjoyed watching movies and playing games. “She knows when you touch it, something is supposed to happen. “What the iPad has done has given her a sense of control that she never had before,” Siddiqui said.
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But it quickly emerged as the overwhelming market leader, introducing millions of people worldwide to the concept of a computer that dwells somewhere between a smartphone and a laptop and offers a large screen full of images and icons with which the user can interact with a single touch. She was non-verbal and had no way of expressing what she wanted or how she was feeling.Īpple’s touchscreen gadget wasn’t the first tablet computer and isn’t the only one now.
Siddiqui, a Columbia, Maryland, resident who shared his daughter’s story on iReport, said that before having the iPad, Sharia’s only way of communicating was crying. She is seen like any other artist conveying a message, a creator of creativity.Then, in 2010, Apple’s iPad was released. Through Creative Growth, she communicates through her contemporary art and color. Judith Scott is deaf and never developed language because her deafness went unknown. No student of ours should ever feel isolated, only empowered! It is our job as educators to implement and evaluate what works best for our students. People with disabilities can communicate across a wide range of mediums. Tablets and communication apps are not the only means of communication available. People with autism who struggle to speak are making significant breakthrough with tablets and specially designed apps that help them to communicate. Communication apps help many like Josh have a voice. It is hard to swallow that he often felt isolated and had bottled up what he wanted to convey. Language apps such as Proloquo2Go allowed Josh to communicate fully for the first time. Maya went from communicating through sign approximations, signs, and gestures to speaking in sentences within just 2 years of using communication boards and communication apps on the iPad such as Proloquo2Go. Maya is full of potential and has plenty to say.
They kept looking for ways Maya can communicate. Maya's parents advocated for her when they saw the reports of her preschool evaluation.
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