Re: EMFS Apps Free for World Autism Awareness on iPhone, iPad & iTouch

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When I was visiting the midwest last year, a doctor whose wife ran the local organic grocery store told me a story of baby cows dying left and right and the farmer could not figure out what was happening. By accident someone discovered that the electrical lines running to the automatic watering system were in the path of the cow's walk to the watering system (babies included). The line was buried only two feet below the surface and the calves were being exposed to this frequency. They dug up the lines and ran them overhead so that they were 13 feet above the cattle. The deaths ceased.

I thought I just read in the news that in the next two years they are doing away with cellphone towers and just planting an antena on every street light. That's just what we need........ constant brain frying.

Subject: Apps Free for World Autism Awareness on iPhone, iPad & iTouchTo: EOHarm Date: Sunday, April 3, 2011, 2:24 PM

http://graceappforautismoniphone.blogspot.com/2011/03/grace-app-goes-free-for-world-autism.html

Grace App for Autism on iPhone, iPad and iTouch To U

Tuesday, March 29, 2011 Extended the 3 days

Grace App Goes Free for World Autism Awareness

Everybody deserves the right to say what they want. Listen and you will also get to know what they like and need, and maybe get to know them a bit better.

The App is free today, and updated!

Many kids with autism or speech delay use "pecs" a system of pictures attached to a board to ask for what they need or say how they feel. These boards are stored in a book which they have to carry around with them. Even if and when they begin to say a few words, they may be difficult to understand and so they need the pictures as a back-up, as their independent speech develops.As the mother of a severely autistic little girl with a few words but many pictures, I wanted to keep prompting her to use her own voice - while bringing ALL her pictures everywhere.. so I created the Grace App

Grace App replicates the picture exchange system by storing a basic picture vocabulary in simple to access folders with a facility for building a semantic sentence.

It can be used on iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. On the smaller devices you tilt and the cards are enlarged for you to point and read together. On iPad the pictures are big enough to be read easily without enlargement.You can take and add your own photographs or images, download, save or transfer pictures that you already have. You can encourage the user to do this independently -:

Giving them the power over their communication choices.

It is a simple and portable means of prompting communication and mutual understanding -

which leads to trust.

And to celebrate World Autism Awareness we have set the App to free. Anyone who uploads Grace App on the day will own it forever and will get all updates free. You can also join our Facebook page for more information and support. Grace App was created with the support of O2 Telefonica and developed by Steve Troughton- for iOS.

Support the drive for collecting old 3G iPhones and iPods/iPads at The Thinking Person's Guide to Autism -including our own MyCharity Link

This Free App Day was inspired by the terrific MomswithApps - a group dedicated to developing great children's and family Friendly Apps.

To search for the best get the Mom's own Free App here

Watch this space for the new manual with updated operating instructions and steps to introducing Augmentative Communication or email me on Graceappforautism@... for a copy.