Touch Screens May Ease Verbal Barriers to Learning

Nine-year-old Anastacia Marquez pauses for a beat, pondering a question from one of her teachers, Melissa Flavell.

Anastacia, a student at Sunrise Elementary School in Las Cruces, N.M., extends her left index finger and presses the corresponding answer on her iPad.

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