Video #1- "Studying Autism and iPads"

If you visit http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7385702n, you can watch a video clip from an episode of CBS' 60 minutes. In one K-8 school, students with autism are using iPads to communicate. Since students with autism have a more difficult time communicating, the teachers are trying to help the students with this by using iPads. The interviewer asked the interviewee if the students were really learning to communicate, or were they just tapping on the screen. The interviewee brought up a great point: when babies are learning to communicate, they babble. What they say doesn't always make sense, but they are learning to interact with the world around them. In a similar way, the children with autism are learning to tap and swipe on the iPad, so they can use it to communicate and interact with others. Only time will tell if the iPads help the students in this particular school develop their communication skills.