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Saturday, June 7, 2008

Grandfathers created a special navigator for his grandson autistic

The autistic have difficulties to handle the amount of information, elements and present colors in Internet. For that reason, a computer science one developed a specific navigator for them. In addition it free put at the disposal of everybody in the Red. An American programmer thought that to sail by the Network autist of six years could help in the rehabilitation of its grandson. Nevertheless, the unique thing that obtained was the downheart after stating that for the small Zac the great amount of colors, banners and the strident contents of the Network did not help it in anything.
In order to solve the problem it designed a navigating specific Web for autistic children, whom the search of contents simplifies and eliminates the elements that affect the mind of those who suffers this disease. After to ask to him rehabilitating educators and of autismo, the grandfathers of Zac incorporated numerous benefits to his navigator, as the blockade of some keys and functions of the computer so that the boy does not relax with secondary elements, like the right button of the mouse or the key “Print screen”. Other elements of the navigator, like the simplified icons and their great size, help the small one to accede of direct form to games, mental stories or exercises. On the matter, an investigator of Brown University de Rhode Island Stephen Sheinkopf indicated that “some parts of the Network have much material stranger who can be being relaxing and for a boy who communicates of nonverbal form, there would not be any possibility so that he uses this information”.

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