This is quite an interesting bit of news via @ktkyletaylor. USA Today has an awesome piece about a mother who now uses an iPod Touch to communicate with her 7-year-old autistic boy, previously communicating with him with rudimentary sign language.

Desperate to communicate with him, she considered buying a specialized device like the ones at his elementary school in Lincoln, Neb. But the text-to-speech machines are huge, heavy and expensive; a few go for $8,000 to $10,000.

Then a teacher told her about a new application that a researcher had developed for, of all things, the iPhone and iPod Touch. Clark drove to the local Best Buy and picked up a Touch, then downloaded the “app” from iTunes.

With Proloquo2Go (iTunes link – $149.99) this kid can communicate by simply pressing icons on the screen that speak out different phrases like, “I’m hungry”, “I need to use the bathroom”, etc. She says the App has changed her son’s life. Check out USA Today for the rest of the article.

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