IPad a Therapeutic Marvel for Disabled People
November 8, 2010 in Special Needs News by Admin Dawn
OWEN CAIN depends on a respirator and struggles to make even the slightest movements — he has had a debilitating motor-neuron disease since infancy.
Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped her boyfriend’s iPad within reach in June, he did something his mother had never seen before.
He aimed his left pointer finger at an icon on the screen, touched it — just barely — and opened the application Gravitarium, which plays music as users create landscapes of stars on the screen.
via IPad a Therapeutic Marvel for Disabled People – NYTimes.com.
Isn’t it wonderful that modern technology is good for more than just entertaining and leading folks to screen addiction?
My son attends the UCP in NY and they use the Wii. It’s very therapeutic as well.
I think it is a godsend. My 3yr old daughter Lillie has cerebral palsy and cvi. The iPod touch and now the iPad have been miracle devices. It has definitely changed her life and continues to do so. We are so thankful!