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Hi, I'm Jason from Autism Interventions

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and today I want to show you a really cool iPad app.

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that we are using with our son...

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our 5 year old who has autism.

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and we have seen some really cool stuff happen with this.

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One of the things about autistic kids that is common

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is they learn really well from digital media.

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So, our son will go around copying lines from Toy Story or Despicable Me

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or something sometimes far more annoying than that.

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So he is learning to say words but they are out of context

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and they are not the right ones we want him to learn.

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So, we got this great app on the iPad 2.

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It's called Scenes Speak. So we want to review Scenes Speak today.

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This is an app we got from the app store...$14.99 I think.

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Here's the cool thing about Scene Speak.

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You can make your own visual and audio books...so to speak.

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very easily. It comes with a library of pictures and things. Like you've got one of your bedroom here

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and you choose an area...for example we can click on computer

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and actually say the word "computer."

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so then when my son is cycling through he can hit it and hear that.

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Let me show you one that we use all the time.

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And, this is where it gets great when we look at family or things we want him to learn.

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So, here is a picture of our family right here.

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So, he can look at this, he can flip through the pages, as they call them...

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and he sees all of his family members.

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So, then he can click on himself and this is what he'd hear.

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[app speaks] This is me. I like to run on my Dad's back.

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So, he's learning, hopefully, things in context, or even more appropriately

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[app speaks] My name is Jack. I am 5 years old.

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This is really, really helpful because, if he's going to learn things from media anyway

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he might as well learn to say things that are true...

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rather than things like, you know, "my name is Lightning McQueen" or something.

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So, here's an example. It's very simple.

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You can have all sorts of things push all over the screen.

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And, it's very accurate. So he can push on "mama"

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[app speaks] Sam

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Oops, he clicked on his brother's head here.

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And, he hear's mama [app] "mommy'

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Or me [app] "daddy"

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Or, himself [app] "Jack"

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So, he plays with this all the time. The cool thing is

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You know, is he still learning my rote? Yeah he is but,

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it's cool because, not only is it in context, and he's saying the right things but

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he's actually learning them in the real world.

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So, he ran up to his mom the other day and said "this is my mommy."

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Or, we were all sitting in the living room and he came in and said "this is my family."

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So, it's pretty exciting. He's starting to learn basic vocabulary that we take for granted

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unless you're a parent of an autistic child then you know how much you long

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for that just simple little breakthrough...him saying your name.

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[app] I love to smile. I love to smile.

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[Dad] Say I love to smile.

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I love to smile.

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So, we highly recommend this app. Again, it's called Scene Speak.

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Be sure to check back.

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We are going to be reviewing all kinds of iPad apps in the future.

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Thanks!