The design of many of these systems is really based on how adults think, and the machines are complicated and children take years learning how to use them.

These kids now have the opportunity to communicate, to learn language, and to learn the kinds of concepts that other children are learning.

We're able to capture them at that early stage and to provide them with a way to develop language as typically developing kids do. They're actually learning words faster than we would see with typical kids.

Kids learn and communicate through speech by trying out new words and forming sentences. If they can't do that due to problems such as autism, Down syndrome, and cerebral palsy, then it is going to be difficult to learn how to read and write, make friends, and communicate their needs.

One has to look out for engineers they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb

We took her off the machines. They weren't doing any good anymore. We took her around and she met her siblings and then we took her outside, because she'd never been outside. She died basically in my wife and (my) arms.