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This is Josh's story. He is a boy who has autisum. Josh has some social nervous tendencies. He strays away from the other students. Josh walks around the classroom and and makes his hands flap. They also have described him as being nonverbal. The teachers were observing him and noticed that he likes books with cause and effect. They were trying to think of ways to have Josh communicate with them. The teachers looked into speaking devices. The device they settled on was the SmartTalker. This device is shown in the video. Through his interactions with the device it helps Josh read the story by speaking the story aloud.

The device used in Josh's story is a SmartTalker created by AbleNet. It is used for children and adults who are unable or reluctant to use their voices. This fits Josh's problem perfectly. It is very user-friendly Alternative Communication tool and system that encourages social interaction, while fostering greater independence in virtually any environment. This s oftware has bridged natural and computer language, "understanding" the actual meaning embedded in sentences. Josh has been using this device for the last two years and now he is verbally telling the stories.

Works Cited AbleNet Inc., "About Us". AbleNet Inc. October 25, 2009 [|www.ablenetinc.net].