Tammy Graham- Autism and the iPad

04/03/13 • 27 min

When we are pregnant we visualize different teaching situations that we will explore with our future child. None of us could anticipate the unfamiliar territory that confronts a parent when their child is diagnosed with autism. For parent Tammy Graham the diagnosis of autism changed her lifestyle. From a full-time working parent she became a stay-at-home parent who utilized many different strategies to teach her daughter. Not long ago she was unsatisfied with her daughter's progress and started using the family's iPad to help teach her daughter. New doors opened. The teaching accelerated. Tammy Graham joins Senior Dad Stan Goldberg to share her journey into using technology to teach her child.

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Dawn ferrer- Using the iPad to teach

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