Alex's New Divice

Alex received a delivery at 8:00 this morning!  Alex was evaluated by a Speech Therapist, Occupational Therapist and a Physical Therapist in November to determine if Alex qualified for an augmentative device.  He worked with a few different types of devices and by the end of the evaluation it was decided that the IPad would be the best fit for Alex.  He qualified not only for the device, but for 12 hours of training as well. 
His new IPad 2 arrived this morning along with his case, stand and two people to introduce he and I to his new augmentative device.  Alex has the Alexicom Application on his computer and the creator of the application along with the business manager came over this morning to help us get started.  Alex will also have 12 hours of training on the program.  His teacher Ms. B along with his speech therapist (Ms. Maria), DDD Coordinator (Jode) and his rehabilitation worker (Ms. Lacey) will be joining us for training.  

The pictures above show his stand that is separate from his case as well that the speakers that are mounted in the case.  The volume is very loud and will allow Alex to use the IPad while he is in restaurants and other loud and overwhelming places that he might be in.  

Alex will be able to use his IPad at school as well as at home and therapies.  Each therapist and teacher will be able to create their own pages for Alex to use while they are with him.  We have locked the IPad (you can see the button covered in the large picture above) so that Alex won't be able to get out of the page that is needed to be worked on at the time. 

Having this device will be such a help to Alex.  We are very excited to begin the training and will update you as he progresses.  I have recorded a few videos of him using a few applications today.  We will need to work on attention and focus, but that applies to many areas of his life not just the IPad!