31 October 2010

iOpen ~ Owen Cain, Enabled Boy, Going Solo...

Emily Hager writes in the NYTimes about Owen Cain in iPad Opens World to a Disabled Boy...
"Owen, 7, does not have the strength to maneuver a computer mouse, but when a nurse propped her boyfriend’s iPad within reach in June, he did something his mother had never seen before. He aimed his left pointer finger at an icon on the screen, touched it -- just barely -- and opened the application..."
This is just one small step on the path towards being fully enabled.

1 comment:

DIRCE said...

They should see if they could download speech software called Dynovox to the system. It would give Owen the chance to have a voice. Check into it and see. He can do amazing things if give a voice and a chance!!!