Such touch-tablet computer iPad sailing is not only entertainment device, but can also be enabled to help stroke patients. Professor Gregg Vanderheiden of the University of Wisconson, Madison, U.S., tried to exploit it.
"Say you have a relative who suffered a stroke, for example, and they can be up and communicating more," said Vanderheiden who is currently Director of the Trace Research and Development Center at the
university, as reported by AFP.


According to him, with the additional applications that empower the touch screen feature, iPad can be a cheap alternative means of communication for people who have difficulty using verbal language. Such a tool has actually been a lot, but they were very expensive.
"Rather than buy a communication tool for 5000 dollars, you can purchase and download applications and iPad, Voila, they can communicate," he said. Target users who can use iPad for those needs not only stroke patients, but also autistic children and people with neurological disorders.
iPad be a cheap solution for them because currently the highest price of the product is only 829 dollars and 499 dollars cheaper. For applications, there is now developing it, such as artificial Prologue2Go AssistiveWare which utilizes a language of symbols as a substitute words with the U.S. dollar price of 189.99. Although paid, at least this device is still cheaper than the standard tools.