Withdrawn
children with autism become surprisingly talkative after using chatty
iPads as part of an experimental treatment program focused on play and
language skills.
Tablet devices featuring icons that can be tapped to produce vocal comments and requests help bring largely silent kids with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, at least partly out of their shells, say education professor Connie Kasari of UCLA and her colleagues.
For six months, 5- to 8-year-olds with ASD used handheld, speech-generating tablet computers, including iPads adapted for that purpose. Up to three months after completing the treatment program, those children spoke to others more often and with a wider vocabulary than did kids given tablets halfway through the six months or not at all. The scientists report the findings in the June Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
Tablet devices featuring icons that can be tapped to produce vocal comments and requests help bring largely silent kids with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, at least partly out of their shells, say education professor Connie Kasari of UCLA and her colleagues.
For six months, 5- to 8-year-olds with ASD used handheld, speech-generating tablet computers, including iPads adapted for that purpose. Up to three months after completing the treatment program, those children spoke to others more often and with a wider vocabulary than did kids given tablets halfway through the six months or not at all. The scientists report the findings in the June Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
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