Digital Smarts - Technology Helps Break the Silence of Nonverbal Students

Armed with iPads, nonverbal students in the Fort Worth School District are communicating with parents and teachers like never before. Children lacking social and verbal skills are beginning to vocalize and even build relationships with others using an app called Words for Life that allows them to use icons to communicate with parents and teachers. Parents and teachers call the transformation miraculous as even teens, many of whom have never been able to communicate before, are starting to speak and make word approximations.