Ashley Harrell at SF Weekly.com reports that the iPad is a great device to teach both communications and social skills in Autistic children.

For autistic children, the new iPad is an effective, portable device for teaching communication and social skills. It’s also way cool.

Three weeks had passed since Shannon Rosa had glanced over the numbers on her tiny blue raffle ticket. Like many other parents, she had agreed to cough up $5 not because she thought she had any real chance of winning, but to support the school.

Now, as she sat in her Honda Odyssey in a Redwood City parking lot, about to pick up some tacos for the family, her cellphone rang. It was the school secretary. Rosa had won the raffle.

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