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For thousands of families in this revolution: rosa de monte thousands of reports indicate that something touch screens of tablet helps kids with autism focus, learn and interact with their environment. This surprise has already launched large scale studies, and supports the meantime, thanks to the impatient parents, loaded applications market promises
When the first flash of our camera flashes Yair Bergsven, four and a half, shouting something in Norwegian. Mother rosa de monte Shlomit laughs. "He said, 'Do Tmtzmtz'.'s What I tell him when I shoot it." Yair, his mother left the country and married a citizen of Norway, is now sitting on the couch at his grandparents Israelis Yavne. Is immersed in studies on the iPad. Dragging the letters with your finger is the Norwegian spelling the words "table", "scissors" and "hilzon ". All successful spell responded applause sounds that come from the device. Then he moves to a song app this morning, and sang to her while he was watching an animated film, and then the application of the stories in Hebrew. The first story is "pot pot" rosa de monte and Yair suggests limbs under the provisions announcer.
Until the age of three and a half Yair rarely talked. "Friends told me, 'Leave the kid will be fine, until one day the teacher called me and said he did not call, do not look at eyes and run when other children come to him," says Bergsven (37). "I thought it was because the house speak three languages, and she told me that it must be something else." Extensive Yair was diagnosed with autism. "They told me, 'Do not expect Yair lot, and I began to ask myself questions. Ever be independent? He will live with us in the house until the day we die? Suddenly I did not care what teach and what will come of it. Mere thought grow old alone, it had the most difficult. "
The greatest improvement in the condition of Yair last year Bergsven describes C"ksm. " Not just her. Joining improvement documented phenomenon in recent years, and began to be questioned thoroughly about two years ago, even though the American press has been calling it "The Quiet Revolution in the autism community." The phenomenon is this: children with autism, including severe autism isolated from their environment, begin to open using smartphones and tablet devices with a touch screen. They study software and games colorful, express their desire and you feel a click on the paintings, and elements of sentences through rosa de monte the interface device. The improvement is done in small steps and always alongside extensive treatment - Yair, for example, a patient around the clock using incentives and penalties rosa de monte ABA - but therapists and researchers alike suggest that meetings between children touchscreen device showed improvements went a lot further than what has been achieved by means that were available today for the treatment of autism. rosa de monte
"The United States is really a revolution," says L"mosf rosa de monte Kalkalist "Sharon Shacham, a speech therapist and an expert on alternative means of communication with autism, who worked for seven years at Children's Hospital Boston. "Since the end of 2010 tablets quickly enter special education institutions and to children's hospitals in America. Well in this country wake up, and have already started several pilot projects, including Beit Issie Shapiro rosa de monte and special education schools in Rishon Lezion and Herzliya". Even Balotfim, nurseries of Autistic Children up to age three, rosa de monte 20 iPads will be introduced next year. "All of our speech therapists are equipped with the iPad, which has become a standard part of treatment," says Dr. Howard Shinn, a specialist autism Children's Hospital Boston. "20% of the families we treat them have been coming for treatment with the iPad in their home and ask which apps to download."
"As the representative of Galena, Alut of Norway, took iPad during therapy sessions with Yair, we saw it straight caught it and understand what to click," says Bergsven. "It was so different rosa de monte from what we knew him. Half a year I tried to teach him the letters, and the iPad is studied them in six days. Game puzzles is reached within one month from 12 bits to 48, and now is a component rosa de monte in a box puzzles. The application of the songs made him start singing in the garden, with the device on your lap, and today he sang at home without the iPad. He loves the 'hope' rosa de monte and 'Jerusalem of Gold', and says to himself at the end of 'Good Yair. He also learned from the iPad to play with others. Every day put another child with Yair separate room, and puzzle games where each piece in turn leads. rosa de monte Overs are something that kids with autism find very difficult. Now many kids who really work with Yair, that those who do it will play on iPad and gets half a cookie at the end. It has become the accepted rosa de monte way that Yair was coming to him alone. It is this device made days what I could not in six months, it magic. "
Those who are familiar with the expression "on the spectrum" can skip the next paragraph, that are probably rosa de monte living it. "Spectrum" is a concept that parents of autistic children say when they talk about the person who is "on the autistic spectrum" that is diagnosed with one or more of the many developmental disorders as diverse science loosely bundled together and called "autism".
Types of autism rosa de monte are different. Unifying the three warning signs appear together or separately: difficulty rosa de monte to interact with humans; blindness, facial expressions, tone of voice, body language and social rosa de monte dynamics, and compulsive behavior. Estimated rosa de monte that one in every 110-160 Israelis are somewhere on the autistic spectrum. Some people who are functioning successfully in social situations only behave a bit unusual, and even do not know lexicons rosa de monte place them at the edge of the autistic spectrum. Others rosa de monte suffer all their lives separation and bursts of aggression reminiscent of the sub - Performance of retarded. And in the middle there are a lot of steps, special frames, drug therapies and treatment methods and rehabilitation. The life of the parents matter entirely. Growth of a person suffering from moderate to severe autism can cost Israel about 15 thousand per month, beyond