Technology

The mighty and driving

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So while I don’t have an article to post tonight, I’m hoping that the article I wrote about my son and learning to drive tonight, might one day be posted either here or somewhere else.

For quite some time now, one of my favorite resources for articles is a website called The Mighty and for a while now, I’ve been wanting to write an article about the journey of autism that my son and I have been on.

One topic in particular that has been on my mine is his wanting to learn to drive but it wasn’t until just recently, where I heard the story from another parent about how they thought their son would never learn to drive but eventually did.

Anyway, here’s hoping I can get it published. My plan is to submit it this week. I just finished my second draft of it and at this point I’m pretty happy with it. That said, I still want to go through it at least one more time. So here’s hoping they like it. I’ll keep you posted.

Sincerely-

 

Autism Librarian

Autism glasses?

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Okay, so when I first saw this article, I must admit I was intrigued. Glasses to help someone with autism? Well, it’s an interesting article to say the least. It’s entitled “Autism Glass Takes Top Student Health Tech Prize [Slide Show]: A Stanford grad student’s invention uses Google Glass to help autistic children recognize facial and social cues in real time” by Prachi Patel over at Scientific American. Maybe you just have to see it to believe it.

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Autism Librarian

AA or autism app

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Now this is what I want to do, create some sort of app that will help my son and others with autism. Check out the article entitled “Doctor Creates Social App for People with Autism” over at the Autism Daily Newscast.Very cool!

I have to admit I’ve been reading a few books on app development lately and I’ve even downloaded a program to invent apps. Maybe the next article I post will be about an app I’ve invented?

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Autism Librarian

Just google autism

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Now those are three words I thought I would never use in the same sentence. First of all, I’m not one to use google. Maybe I’m just a little old fashion but I’ve really only used a couple of search engines. First it was Excite, then Yahoo! and now Goodsearch.

Goodsearch is in fact powered by Yahoo! but they also give 1 cent for each search you do and I figure since I’m a librarian, I might as well donate as I’m working. Right now I’m donating to the Missouri Special Olympics. Go Team!

So anyway, imagine my surprise when I saw this article. It’s entitled “Google Glass App Reads Emotions, May Benefit Some with Autism” at Autism Speaks. Maybe I’ll have to invest in a pair of glasses for my son?

Sincerely-

 

Autism Librarian