Some kids with special needs and learning disabilities can be helped by having activities they can do on a tablet on their own in addition to parental and professional help they get.
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Some kids with special needs and learning disabilities can be helped by having activities they can do on a tablet on their own in addition to parental and professional help they get.
There are a lot of things for a child to learn before reading. All the more reason that a tablet can be a help. You don't have to know how to read when a tablet can speak to you.
Trust me, as a parent of a child with special needs and a learning disability a tablet would have been a big help at 4. I wish we would have gotten one then.
We have a couple of little games/learning things on our iPad for our 1 year old. He enjoys it for a few minutes before moving on. He may or may not be learning is ABCs or numbers from it but it can't hurt.
Plus - don't judge unless you are a parent (or just don't judge).
Sometimes you just need the kid to ******* shut-up and be still for a minute, and a youtube video of grown-ups playing with Playdoh is the only thing that will do it. :twitcy:
Sometimes you just need the kid to ******* shut-up and be still for a minute, and a youtube video of grown-ups playing with Playdoh is the only thing that will do it. :twitcy:
There is that too. We try and limit his iPad/TV time as much as possible but at times it is unavoidable. Same goes for my wife's daycare. She doesn't have the TV on all day but when making lunch or trying to get younger kids to sleep it is about all you can do with the older ones especially when the weather is not great.
I was going to say, is it really that she made a good choice or just the least-bad choice
Mine did - simple "see jane run" type things. They also loved to play number games. They probably would have enjoyed Ipads. I know THEIR kids love to play on the tablets they have.
Neither did they. Matter of fact, they bought their first (original) Nintendo with pooled Christmas & Birthday money because I wouldn't buy them one.
I don't agree with tablets being babysitters any more than I agreed with continuous video games or tv shows. Moderation and selectivity are the keys here.
In Mason city, there is a state farm agent that has an old brick church as his office. Definitely not typical. Did a double take on it.
Had to take a test at NIACC. Me and a niacc taking the test in the test room. I passed, he bombed.
Had to take a test at NIACC. Me and a niacc taking the test in the test room. I passed, he bombed.
I had some computer games but other than that didn't have anything gaming like until I bought a 360 my junior year of college.
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lol I played computers games like backyard baseball and ****. Then my dad got an Xbox and I played halo, gta, and street basketball games.Video games didn't exist when I was 8
Video games didn't exist when I was 8
Ever ask mom why you wore a dress?
JC, you know that kid just shot to the top of your daughter's list. Always want the kid their parents don't like.
We got our first video game when in elementary school. It was the "not Atari" version of Pong.Video games didn't exist when I was 8
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