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Microsoft Funds Software Autistic Children - Psychology, Special Needs, Health - Posted: 17th Apr, 2009 - 12:07pm
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Software for mobile phones
Microsoft Funds Software For Autistic Children
This is great news for parents with non-verbal autistic children. Hopefully, it will be available for ALL phones and the kids will have a chance to communicate. Despite what people may think, non-verbal autistic children have average intelligence and CAN talk, they just cannot express themselves through speech.
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| With financial and technical support from Microsoft, university researchers are developing software for mobile phones that uses pictures to help autistic children communicate. The software, available for download under an open-source license, lets kids form visual sentences by touching the phone's screen to select pictures and move them around. The program is being developed by Gondy Leroy of Claremont Graduate University and Gianluca De Leo of Old Dominion University, with funding from Microsoft's External Research Group. It takes advantage of the established Picture Exchange Communication System, which is more commonly used with laminated paper cards.... |
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