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Alison Singer's daughter Jodie is a good example of a person with a more severe disability who benefits from using an iPad: http://uptownradio.org/?p=952
Carly Fleischmann communicates using a laptop: http://carlysvoice.com/
Kristina Chew has written about teaching her son Charlie Fisher to surf the Internet.
I am not sure you've spent a lot of time on TPGA because there've actually been a LOT of posts about how helpful iPads can be for kids with autism--including as an AAC device, which would generally not apply to people diagnosed with Asperger's.
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as the comments on this post have been going on I have been having some thoughts, like
"how come I don't think it matters if someone makes ABA sound bad, even though I know some people who do ABA are good people and do good things?"
and "how come even though I don't think kids should be able to do whatever they want, I have no problem with Kassiane's attitude toward C? is it a different kind of no? is it because of C's particular disability experience? what is the rubric?"
but actually writing comments about those things would be pretty ambitious. On the other hand, it's easy to say how I feel about the Temple Grandin comment. I feel bad that this happens but I think it's the nature of the Internet and maybe conversation in general. It takes so much more commitment to respond to a long comment and really unpack an idea that is complicated, so of course people usually say small things about other small things.
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I guess what I mean is that in conversations about disability, to some extent it doesn't matter if someone could possibly have been labeled with a disability in an alternate life. They haven't been, and so they haven't had the experience of that stigma. Does that make sense?