Currently I do not have an iPad and personally, as of right now, anything that I would want to use the iPad for I can do on my android phone. \u00a0It\u2019s not that I don\u2019t see the benefits to an iPad, I know there is a lot, it\u2019s just that as of right now in my life, an iPad isn\u2019t a necessity for myself.<\/p>\n
I have used an iPad before; as my in-laws have one and so does my 3 & \u00bd year old nephew. \u00a0For my nephew there are so many educational apps that he uses from games to animated books and movies, it\u2019s interesting to watch, as he is learning so much more while \u2018playing\u2019 educational games on his iPad than I think he would without it. Watching him, I can see how an iPad has the potential to captivate kids and get them excited about learning.<\/p>\n
I also used to work at a family relief\u00a0center\u00a0for children and adults with disabilities. Recently the psychologist and speech pathologists there have converted everything over to iPads, and most of their clients now have their own. \u00a0The benefits for them are that their clients with apraxia or autism are able to communicate through the use of the iPad. This is much easier and a lot more portable than the traditional Velcro communication books children with aphasia or autism usually carry around because it gives them a wider choice of vocabulary to choose from. The disadvantage to the iPad for these children is the cost as not everyone can afford to purchase an iPad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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