Comment from Lourdes
Since the Ipad has emmerged sdeudnly there's a great interest in AAC software. PRC products have been researched and developed over the last 30 years. SLPs learn over time through cont education to teach parents and children to use them. There are already so many communication apps randomly available on the ipad and one concern would be the inconsistency in almost every aspect. Would users become frustrated and thus not see how effective AAC can be with appropriate training? SLPs are supposed to evaluate and determine the most effective and appropriate device for the family. Cost is always an issue, but could choosing the wrong apps or having apps without using them appropriately put us in a worse position? There's a lot to consider.
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Anonymous: Eye roll. In case you haven't noticed, pelpoe ask me to blog more. I mean that's the only thing pelpoe can request anyway, if you wanted someone to blog less well, you'd just not go their blog. Smart move, but clearly something you aren't clever enough to think of.Anyway I update less (if a 5 day break really is considered less... geez guess you have nothing better to do than squat my blog and wait for updates) because I have a life, which you clearly don't as you rather leave nasty comments on strangers' blogs.Although I couldn't care less if you want to waste your own time by leaving such comments, I care about having to waste my time reading them. So please take your own advice. Good day.
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Paula: I don't think it will change athiynng, no, but I think it's an important victory for the dignity of the affected parties. Obama fully funded IDEA, the first president to do so. It's no surprise that he understands the importance of that dignity, Leno gaffe notwithstanding. As for the WSJ article, I'm happy to see this issue getting more media attention. The issue with insurance carriers will change, I'm convinced of it. Insurance companies care about their bottom line, and AAC companies are fooling themselves if they think that carriers will continue to choose to pay 80 or 90% more for dedicated speech devices just to avoid having a nonverbal child use their iPad to play Angry Birds when no one is looking.I'm disappointed to see PRC's rep dig in rather than address the software and language system possibilities. Put bluntly, if they look at the big picture and come up with a multiple-platform approach, they'll remain relevant and will show themselves to be forward-thinking industry leaders. If they don't, they'll fail. And none of us wants to see that.
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Daaaaaaah, a fool and his are soon easily parted. Daaaah!
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