iPad gives nonspeaking woman a voice to advocate for Americans with disabilities
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A woman with nonspeaking autism got an iPad when she was 18, and through an app on it, is now speaking in schools -- and working for the government. Jordyn Zimmerman using an iPad accessibility tool to give her a voice (Source: CBS) Apple introduced Live Speech with iOS 17 in 2023, but as far back as 2014 there were iPad apps that could speak whatever was typed into them. The iPad then radically changed the life of Jordyn Zimmerman, then aged 18, who had nonspeaking autism. "[The]...

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