Finding Good Apps for Children With Autism. Shannon Des Roches RosaLeo Rosa, son of Shannon Des Roches Rosa, of Redwood City, Calif., plays with Spot the Dot, an educational app for the iPad.
The Apple iPad has been hailed as a savior for assisting children with autism spectrum disorder or other special needs. It was portrayed as a minor miracle in a recent segment on “60 Minutes” and has been found to help even the very young quickly learn. Anecdotally, teachers, parents and therapists describe the profound difference that apps for Apple and Android products have made in helping autistic children develop skills. IPad programs have provided a means of communicating for some children with autism who cannot speak or have language delays. Other apps help children learn to handle social situations that can be stressful, like crowds at malls. iPad Apps for People with Autism - OT Journey. When I graduated from OT school this past May, my Dad offered to buy me an iPad2 as a graduation gift.
He thought that maybe I would be able to use it in my work with kids with special needs as I drove to and from clients' homes and saw them in the clinic. I decided it would be a good investment, so a few hours after I received my Master's degree in Occupational Therapy, we headed over to the Apple store and picked out my shiny new toy. Speech therapy for autism-itherapy.