[blparent] new member intro

[Judy Jones]

Maybe this is just me, but I would also say no to the portability of the iPad or laptop, even though they would be more convenient to carry back and forth to school.  He will need to do that soon enough in the older grades.  While a desktop computer may be more inconvenient, it stays put in the vicinity where the parent chooses to set it up, and easier to monitor activity that way.

Another example of inconvenience.  I would not let our girls have calculators until they learned their math skills, or the teacher required one in the classroom, but that did not happen until they were in middle school.  Like not letting a blind child have talking books until the braille skills/literacy is well developed for their age.  The speech and verbal is too available to all today.  Just some thoughts.

Judy


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Hi Josh welcome to the list.  I have seen your name on some of the other Nfb mailing lists.  I would say to get your son an IPad Mini from Apple.  This device has apps like Pages so he can do his schoolwork on it.  I would say no to the X box gameing system for now.

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