Tablets for Autism Education, here are some recent new worth taking a look at!!!!

1) Sony S1, It seems unique in design, and with Sony’s reputation for quality it is worth considering. I credit Cnet for the following review. It offers psp interoperability so it might be worth buying–>

2)New Toshiba Tablet At200, much thinner than the thrive, and more ports than its competitors and thinner too.

3) Archos 80 G9, a nice and affordable tablet and other versions, with Android 3.2.

4) Lenovo Thinkpad Tablet, seems quite nice, especially the display quality.I also like the usb 2.0 port, and the stylus.

5) Samsung 7.7. A nice sized tablet from Samsung. It seems quite nice.

Team-Touchdroid dual boots Android on TouchPad — touchscreen not included By Christopher Trout posted Sep 3rd 2011 8:13PM

I am still seeking a touch pad. For those of you that have one, developers are working on allowing it to run Web Os as well as Android.

According to the fine folks at Engadget–>

The race to get Android working on the now budget-friendly HP TouchPad is on. We’ve already heard rumors of the little green robot coming pre-installed on the ill-fated slate and we’ve seen the first CM7 boot, but no one’s gone all the way quite yet. While progress is slow, a team of dedicated TouchPad hackers, calling itself Team-Touchdroid, is now showing off a dual-boot configuration with Android 2.3.5. As with CM7, the touchscreen still doesn’t work, but the demo video is quite dramatic — that is until the credits stop rolling. If early-stage flip-flopping OSs are your thing, hop on past the break, but don’t say we didn’t warn you: it’s going to get weird.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/03/team-touchdroid-dual-boots-android-on-touchpad-touchscreen-no/

Here is a video from youtube showing how it works.

Since HP may be making more of them, they are definitely worth considering as an option.

We need some to donate and test so if anyone wants to help us get some let me know.

It is amazing how smart some of the developers are when it comes to technology.

I heard about this article from the Koffee Klatch on Twitter from Kid’s Companions with regards to Raising Autistic Children

Per Kid’s Companions–>

I just wrote a book review of What I Wish I’d Known about Raising a Child with Autism: A Mom and a Psychologist Offer Heartfelt Guidance for the First Five Years by Bobbi Sheahan and Kathy DeOrnellas, Ph.D. By the last page of the book, I felt as if I knew the young mom, Bobbi, and would really love to have help from a professional like Dr. DeOrnellas. The following interview with Bobbi Sheahan will add another helpful friend to your list. And if you have not yet read my review of the book or the book itself, Bobbi’s honest, encouraging answers should entice you to do so.

Bobbi writes beautifully and I enjoyed every chapter! The margins of my book are filled with my symbols for “Wow this is SO good”. I appreciate Bobbi’s comment about the review that she felt:” You really, really understood what we are trying to do. Thank you so very much!”

This sounds like an informative resources worth reading.

Here are links to the author and the web review of her book.


http://www.bobbisheahan.com/

http://kidcompanions.com/archives/6662

If you have the time I would consider reading the book.

Tools for Parents Who Worry About Autism from Parents Magazine

I recently read an article with regards to parents of autistic kids by Kara Corridan.

In our October issue, out any day now, we have a special report by Darshak Sanghavi, M.D., called “Understanding Autism.”checklist In it Dr. Sanghavi, a member of the Parents advisory board, explores what is and isn’t known about autism’s causes, how the condition is identified and diagnosed, and the growing trend among researchers to focus on early intervention to help children with autism succeed.
What many parents of young children will want to know, of course, is how they can tell whether their child might be at risk for autism (note that they do not diagnose). And there are two important tools available to help moms and dads do just that—fairly simple questionnaires that take only a few minutes to complete. As we explain in our story:

For the rest of the story click here–>http://www.parents.com/blogs/goodyblog/2011/09/tools-for-parents-who-worry-about-autism/

An opportunity to watch Dr. Temple Grandin’s biography online, from The Autism news

I recently received an email from The Autism News, http://theautismnews.com/2011/09/02/temple-grandin/

The Autism News is a great website and I really like them.

I am a huge fan of hers, am asperger’s as well. Mine is different as are my kids who also are on the autism spectrum.

I am inspired by Dr. Temple Grandin, she is the one of the reason’s I started this website and am developing an autism foundation to help improve the quality of life for autistic people via technology, education and the arts. Once our funding and corporate sponsorship’s increase as well as the completion of our 501c3, we will expose autistic people and their families to tech, music, the arts and provide the tickets to events, and funding for education in technology usage, and we will provide the technology, as well as music and the arts.

According to our friends at Tech Crunch HP is going to make more Hp Touchpads

In a recent article and a post in HP’s website they may be producing 1 more run of HP touch pads to meet demand. If that is the case, it is a good idea. For the $ 100 or $ 200 price it is a great value. I was decently impressed by the ones that I have tried. The web os reminds me of Black Berry’s tablet os as well.

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Ten days ago, HP announced that it was going to be liquidating its abruptly-discontinued TouchPad, the WebOS-powered iPad competitor that launched early this summer. When it first launched the device was going for $500; a later price drop to $400 didn’t do much to help sales. But the liquidation sale sure did. The new pricetag: $99.

All TouchPads available from both HP and retailers alike were sold out within a day or two. And since then, technophiles eager to get in on the deal have been refreshing their inboxes, Twitter feeds, and HP’s websites to find out when the remainder of HP’s unsold inventory would become available.

for more information please click here–>http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/30/hp-were-producing-one-last-run-of-touchpads-to-meet-demand/

Touch Pads are going to be available once again it seems. I hope so. I would definitely buy one.

We are answering the call with our autism organization, to make a difference for autism, watch the video and then please help us to help autism

I found this inspiring video that also embodies our purpose, I have asperger’s. my 3 kids are on the spectrum, we need to help autistic peoplr. We intend to help via technology, music and the arts. We will fund donations of tablets to individuals and schools, and donate tickets to musical, and cultural events, we will fund music therapy, and help music and theater programs and inspire them to include people on the autism spectrum, and we will donate towards music, and arts educational programs.

Here is the video—>

If that does not inspire people to help autism organizations like ours, then what truly will. I stand up for autism, please help us, as they say united we stand.

More the music from the aspie nonprofit for autism our intent is to help via tech-music and the arts

We need corporate sponsors, donors of tech like tablets, music-instruments or tickets to cultural events, and fundraising. We also need a board member.

Here is an example of some the music that soothes my aspie mind and evokes emotion.

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2) this one is amazing and emotional and makes a statement a shout out to DJ Gator Records and DJ Alligator–>

Scarborough Fair an old but beautiful calming song. It calms my old autistic soul…as well as the second piece of medieval music

“Scarborough Fair” is a traditional ballad of the United Kingdom.
The song tells the tale of a young man, who tells the listener to ask his former lover to perform for him a series of impossible tasks, such as making him a shirt without a seam and then washing it in a dry well, adding that if she completes these tasks he will take her back. Often the song is sung as a duet, with the woman then giving her lover a series of equally impossible tasks, promising to give him his seamless shirt once he has finished.
As the versions of the ballad known under the title “Scarborough Fair” are usually limited to the exchange of these impossible tasks, many suggestions concerning the plot have been proposed, including the hypothesis that it is a song about the Plague. The lyrics of “Scarborough Fair” appear to have something in common with an obscure Scottish ballad, The Elfin Knight (Child Ballad #2),[1] which has been traced at least as far back as 1670 and may well be earlier. In this ballad, an elf threatens to abduct a young woman to be his lover unless she can perform an impossible task (“For thou must shape a sark to me / Without any cut or heme, quoth he”); she responds with a list of tasks that he must first perform (“I have an aiker of good ley-land / Which lyeth low by yon sea-strand”).
The melody is very typical of the middle English period.
As the song spread, it was adapted, modified, and rewritten to the point that dozens of versions existed by the end of the 18th century, although only a few are typically sung nowadays. The references to the traditional English fair, “Scarborough Fair” and the refrain “parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme” date to 19th century versions, and the refrain may have been borrowed from the ballad Riddles Wisely Expounded, (Child Ballad #1), which has a similar plot.

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