iPads Become Learning Tools for Students with Disabilities
When a speech therapist suggested last fall that it was time for 4th grader Sloan Brickey to use a device to help convey her sometimes-garbled words, the first option was a 2-foot-long board that offered a choice of six words at a time.
Sloan, 11, has Down syndrome and already sticks out enough at her elementary school in Powell, Tenn., said her mother, Kelly J. Brickey.
So Ms. Brickey did some research and found a different solution: a list of applications for the Apple iPad that work well helping...
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Correction:
An earlier version of this article mischaracterized AssistiveWare’s reason for creating Proloquo2go. It did so as an alternative to traditional assistive devices.
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