{"id":110,"date":"2013-09-13T10:14:14","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T09:14:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/?p=110"},"modified":"2013-09-13T10:18:48","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T09:18:48","slug":"autistic-children-communicate-with-horses-and-ipads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/2013\/09\/13\/autistic-children-communicate-with-horses-and-ipads\/","title":{"rendered":"Autistic Children Communicate with Horses and iPads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Icatha College USA, a project involving\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Tina Caswell &#8211;\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"line-height: 1.714285714; font-size: 1rem;\">Clinical Instructor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ithaca.edu\/news\/releases\/with-horses-and-ipads,-autistic-children-learn-to-communicate-35695\">With Horses and iPads, Autistic Children Learn to Communicate<\/a>\u00a0[Press release]<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JTe7yPuZtAA\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Interesting to note that they found that the light weight of an iPad device was an important factor<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;&#8230;traditional assisted speech-generating devices can be cumbersome and heavy and children tend to abandon them due to lack of interest with their limited communication options.\u00a0On the contrary, iPads loaded with speech-generating applications only weigh around 1 pound, cost significantly less than traditional assisted speaking devices and are more user friendly.\u00a0&#8230;&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In the project they also utilise <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.dynavoxtech.com\/products\/\">Dynavox<\/a>\u00a0Alternative and Augmentative Communication (AAC) devices.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Icatha College USA, a project involving\u00a0Tina Caswell &#8211;\u00a0Clinical Instructor, Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology With Horses and iPads, Autistic Children Learn to Communicate\u00a0[Press release] Interesting to note that they found that the light weight of an iPad device was an important factor &#8220;&#8230;traditional assisted speech-generating devices can be cumbersome and heavy and children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/2013\/09\/13\/autistic-children-communicate-with-horses-and-ipads\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Autistic Children Communicate with Horses and iPads&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":""},"categories":[9967,4421],"tags":[8,6335,9989,9988,6184],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iriss.org.uk\/autismcard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}