Assistive Technology

I have, with different take on this. With Amazon's recent announcement to build a $200 handheld device, running android, assistive technologies via a handheld device will become more readily available to many more students because of the decreased cost and handheld platform. There are endless numbers of great iPad applications for education but, the $500 price tag is difficult for many school systems to afford for all students. The $200 price tag brings a handheld device into close  proximity of the cost of two textbooks.

Where school districts can afford iPod Touches and iPads autistic children can increasingly be mainstreamed. If your child is non-verbal consider that purchasing an augmentative and alternative communication device costs thousands of dollars. Then consider the iPod Touch will run you about $200. Then $10-$200 more for the appropriate apps. There's really no comparison when it comes to price and the functionality tends to be just as good.

There many schools that use iPod's with their ESL students. It allows the students who normally wouldn't hear English at home to practice hearing nameless mind which spoken via recorded text. The students can practice reading along with the printed text while listening to the text being read, thus bringing an immersion is difficult to offer ESL students.