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It turns out that autistic children show a real interest in the iPad with its easy touch-and-swipe screens. With specially-designed applications, or apps, these computers are helping them communicate and unlocking the isolation of [autistic] people. (To read the rest of the "Apps for Autism" segment, click here.)We hope to get an iPad some day. (Okay, honey, it's for me, too.) I bring up these points (about my mom and then my son's autism) just to say: Depending on where you find yourself, there can be a whole lot of dissing of the newest technology, the time people spend with it, how things never used to be that way ~ that people used to talk to each other, go outside and smell the roses, etc., instead of having their eyes and fingers glued to an iPad ~ and it's not that I don't think there aren't abuses that take place, but let's not throw out the baby with the bath water. And maybe this is a heavy revy for some ("heavy revelation" means large awakening in your understanding). What I mean by that is maybe the next new thing (whether it's technology or not, whatever it is), maybe we can do something a little bit different than we've done before (some of us). Maybe we can be a little less standoff-ish and more embracing? Maybe we can be a little less looking down our noses or throwing up our arms (Bah, humbug!) and more childlike in wonder ~ all for the purpose of not missing out on the benefit of whatever the technology is. Worth a try? Image: David Castillo Dominici / FreeDigitalPhotos.net You might also be interested in:
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