How apps, touch screens are helping children w/ special needs

Apps created for tablet devices by education-software companies, parents and individual programmers are changing the way children with disabilities communicate. The apps, available on Apple, Hewlett-Packard and Google Android devices, are leading to communication breakthroughs, many parents and educators say. One software designer developed a series of apps that use intuitive pictures to assist children after watching his son with developmental disabilities struggle with a speech-therapy device. San Jose Mercury News (Calif.) (free registration) (7/18) http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_18478215?nclick_check=1