We don't have and iPad or tablet of any sort. Andrew and I have thought about getting one for Miles, however we did not want to buy one if Miles did not use it. Avery would use it, but we would mostly get it for a learning tool for Miles.
I asked his teachers at school if he used the one they have in the classroom. Their reply was "Not really." Later when I spent more time in the classroom I notice Miles mostly avoided the iPad because the other 3 kids in his class would fight over it. He thought it was best to avoid that and I can't blame him.
Today in his weekly speech therapy the iPad was brought out. Miles LOVED it. No surprise he already knows how to navigate it... I have no idea! He loved the piano and drum apps! Next his therapist tried an app that asked Miles to pick an item from a bunch of pictures. This one was kind of funny because Miles would pick the coolest looking picture, like the candy apple, instead of the item prompted like vacuum.
This is where I am going to cry. She then had Miles do one that would say "find the letter ____". She did 5 or 6 of them with Miles (before he pushed the 'quit' button) and he got all of them right. I have never seen him do this. Since he does not say much it is hard to know how much he knows sometimes. I know what some of you are thinking, why don't ask him that stuff with what I have at home? He does not want to do that stuff with me and I am not going to force him. He would rather do that stuff with therapists, teachers and I suppose now maybe the iPad. He also knew the number 4 and did the number 4 two different times. I wished he would not have pushed the quit button because I would have loved to know how much he does know!
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