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  • South Street Elementary School
  • Newark, NJ
  • More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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My students have autism and/or apraxia. They struggle to speak everyday. Sign language is difficult to do with their fine motor delays and most people can't understand it. These children need a voice and the iPad and certain communication apps can be just what they need, but we need the resources so that we can begin training our kids and to begin training our teachers on these apps. We need to help our kids communicate. Parents need to be trained. Successful training and use of these apps could open up a world of difference for these children who have no means of communicating. Some of our children are over the age of 8 and are still nonverbal and are not beyond their grunting, grabbing. I would like to use these iPads to train other beginning speech therapists on the use of augmentative communication to help our nonverbal children communicate their basic wants and needs.

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My students have autism and/or apraxia. They struggle to speak everyday. Sign language is difficult to do with their fine motor delays and most people can't understand it. These children need a voice and the iPad and certain communication apps can be just what they need, but we need the resources so that we can begin training our kids and to begin training our teachers on these apps. We need to help our kids communicate. Parents need to be trained. Successful training and use of these apps could open up a world of difference for these children who have no means of communicating. Some of our children are over the age of 8 and are still nonverbal and are not beyond their grunting, grabbing. I would like to use these iPads to train other beginning speech therapists on the use of augmentative communication to help our nonverbal children communicate their basic wants and needs.

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