Model Me Kids® leverages iPhone app technology as a tool for teaching children on the Autism spectrum. Extend the lessons in the Model Me Faces & Emotions™ and Model Me Going Places™ videos with a free portable visual teaching tool.

Leslie Clark and her husband have been trying to communicate with their autistic 7-year-old son, JW, for years, but until last month, the closest they got was rudimentary sign language. He’s “a little bit of a mini-genius,” Clark says, but like many autistic children, JW doesn’t speak at all. Desperate to communicate with him, she considered buying a specialized device like the ones at his elementary school in Lincoln, Neb. But the text-to-speech machines are huge, heavy and expensive; a few go for $8,000 to $10,000. Then a teacher told her about a new application [autism app] that a researcher had developed for, of all things, the iPhone and iPod Touch. Clark drove to the local Best Buy and picked up a Touch, then downloaded the “app” from iTunes. Total cost: about $500.
– USA Today