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Tag: Hacking Autism
Can Simplicity Make AAC Emotional?
Insanely Simple Insanely Simple by Ken Segall is an incredible book. It opened my eyes, changed my mind, and helped me understand what my son was trying to teach me. My son likes simplicity. He would rather you leave something out, and make it work, than leave it in at the risk of diminished functionality. This…
Special Needs Parents are Geek and Cool
While most geek parents are doing cool things for fun, parents with disabilities do them for fun, and to improve the quality of their children’s lives.
What Special Needs Parents Need Most?
Almost everyday, I see or hear about parents with special needs being overwhelmed with information, critiques, or gloomy outlooks regarding their children. All too rare are those moments when someone chooses to inspire them, even though inspiration is what they need most.
A Great Review for Quick Talk AAC
We believe technology is meant to help those with disabilities overcome their human limits, which is exactly what Quick Talk AAC has been able to do.
Hope for “I Wish I Didn’t Have Asperger’s”
The Autism Positivity 2012 Flash Blog is explained by one of its writers in this way. Someone recently did a search with the words “I wish I didn’t have Aspergers.” One blogger felt it was incredibly sad and, as a result, a number of bloggers decided to light up the internet with Autism Positivity blogs and…
A Social Stories App?
“Let’s take just one stakeholder example: students with disabilities, as well as their teachers and parents. Autism advocate and software developer Russ Ewell from the Hope Technology Group is excited. “Apple could unlock another door for autism with this breakthrough,” Ewell said. “Parents could create social story books.” So could special education teachers or therapists,…
Scholastic Highlights Our TouchSmart Project
Digital Scribbler Inc. was born from an experimental project in partnership with Hope Technology School. This project utilized the HP TouchSmart in an early effort to leverage multi-touch computing in the classroom. Scholastic recently highlighted this project here. The original case study can be found here. We leveraged our experiences with the TouchSmart to begin…
Creating an AAC Communication Game-plan
“What you want is a real talisman, a magic something you think I conjured up to coax Temple into joining life, as you hope your child will. There was no magic; there was just doing the best I could. That’s the point; that’s the talisman.” Eustacia Cutler, A Thorn in My Pocket I am grateful…