Mother sets out to buy iPads for other autistic children

Tara Oathout couldn’t believe it. Her son, Grady Oathout, who will turn 4 in August, was asking for fruit after just getting back to grandma’s house after lunch at a restaurant, where he had eaten more than anybody at the table.

“He’s always hungry,” said Tara Oathout as she walked into the kitchen to fetch him something to eat. “Amazing.”

Actually, it was amazing, but not only because he wanted more food so soon after a big lunch. Grady, who has autism, didn’t ask his mommy for a banana in the conventional way –– by activating the anatomical mechanisms that produce human speech –– because Grady doesn’t talk. Instead, he asked by using his Apple iPad.

“How about a banana?” Tara Oathout asked, offering a chunk to Grady.

He smiled, pushed the banana into his mouth and instantly returned to the electronic device that has, in ways both large and small, opened lines of communication that those who love him once feared were closed off for life.

She is helping autistic people get ipads in a similar manner to what we are trying to do.

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