For Kids with Autism, iDevices are Life Changers - featured April 13. 2010
< Back to Previous PageThanks to our friends at Kaufman Children's Center for the heads up on this article
[Source: The Globe & Mail (UK)]
When you enter Emily Buczek’s Toronto classroom, it’s like Times Square: Everywhere you look, there’s a new visual distraction.
A picture of each student is tacked onto a large, colourful map above his or her country of origin (Emily’s mug hovers over Poland).
There’s a shelf of well-loved toys – a slumped-over clown, a plush frog – and rows of picture books, among them Emily’s favourite: a cardboard volume of Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
All these diversions are there to keep up with students’ fleeting attention spans: Emily and her peers at Beverley School all have developmental and/or physical disabilities.
Read the Rest of this Story on the Globe and Mail Website
[Source: The Globe & Mail (UK)]
When you enter Emily Buczek’s Toronto classroom, it’s like Times Square: Everywhere you look, there’s a new visual distraction.
A picture of each student is tacked onto a large, colourful map above his or her country of origin (Emily’s mug hovers over Poland).
There’s a shelf of well-loved toys – a slumped-over clown, a plush frog – and rows of picture books, among them Emily’s favourite: a cardboard volume of Winnie-the-Pooh stories.
All these diversions are there to keep up with students’ fleeting attention spans: Emily and her peers at Beverley School all have developmental and/or physical disabilities.
Read the Rest of this Story on the Globe and Mail Website
