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NEWS The Battalion I 4.16.15 3 Jennifer Ganz, professor of educational psychology and affiliated faculty at the CDD, shows a child a learning app. Shelby Knowles —THE BATTALION Moderator Roland Martin (left) and Ari Fleischer (center) listen as David Axelrod (right) answers a question. AUTISM CONTINUED Kristi Morin, educational psy chology doctoral student. “For example, we will have a few of the child’s favorite toys in sight but out of reach,” Morin said. “When the child reaches for the toy, we will guide his or her hand to prompt the use of the app. Once the voice output feature of the app is activated, we immediately give the child ac cess to the toy as a reward. After repeating this sequence several times, the child starts to learn that he or she needs to touch the app to get the toy.” With time, the child will inde pendently use the device, Morin said. Before the technological ap proaches, Morin said children with autism had limited options when it came to communication devices. Large communication boards or books were generally used, but Morin said these de vices had the potential to socially isolate the child. “Children with autism often feel ‘cool’ when they are carrying around an iPad, to communicate versus a large communication board,” Morin said. “In addition, apps have the advantage of hav ing voice output so the child can hear the word or sentence spoken after it is touched.” When the Brazos Valley Re habilitation Center first opened its doors to those with autism, it helped 10 individuals. Since then, that number has quadrupled. Educational psychology doc toral student Margot Boles said efforts over the last three years have pushed to develop and en hance programs for individuals with autism in the Brazos Valley. As part of this push, Boles said the Autism Clinic has sessions to help people with autism in their Place an Ad Phone 979.845.0569 Suite L400, Memorial Student Center Texas A&M University When to Call 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday Insertion deadline: 1 p.m. prior business day VISA daily life. “The Autism Clinic offers group and private therapy to promote communication, social interaction and daily living skills training to individuals with au tism in the community,” Boles said. While this technology gives individuals with autism a way to communicate their wants, needs and emotions, there is the down side of not having the same inter action as when the individuals use picto-cards with a partner. “So that’s somewhat challeng ing with apps on these mobile de vices, to figure how to best teach them to have that social approach and to use it for communication because they’re so used to using iPads for watching their favorite videos or playing games,” Ganz said. “V/e’re working how to best teach them to use them also as communication.” WILEY CONTINUED what he was saying. I was at his side all day,” Fleischer said. “I spent vir tually the entire day in the president’s office on Air Force One taking ver batim notes on what he said and did. I realized this was a historic day and my notes are the only original notes describing what happened.” Axelrod said he experienced first hand the high-pressure decisions the president faces, illustrated by the attack of an American ship off the coast of Somalia by pirates. “I never gave a lot of thoughts to pirates,” Axelrod said. “Then there was the Captain Phillips incident. I’m standing with the president and they are saying, ‘The Navy seals have the boat and the captain of the pirates. Y ou have 10 minutes to decide.’ That’s the way it is. You are posed with these questions all the time.” Fleischer said the opportunity to work at the White House allowed him to see that preserving American freedom is vital to the success of the nation. “This is the blessing of America, and I don’t care what party you belong to, Democrat or Republican, it’s our job as Americans to preserve freedom, and that is the story of the White House,” Fleischer said. “That is what it was and always will be an honor to have worked there.” Elaina Stephenson, political science senior, said the discussion revealed that anyone has a shot of working in the White House. “It leaves with you hope,” Stephen son said. “These people are sons of immigrants with simple backgrounds. They aren’t just these big gods, so you think that one day that could be you.” Private Party Want Ads $10 for 20 words running 5 days, if your merchandise is priced $1,000 or less (price must appear in ad). 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