Carly

Teressa Morgan or Mrs Morgan Adventures with ICTs recently posted on EDC3100 ICT and Pedagogy Facebook group about how ICT has helped this young girl to communicate with her family for the first time in years. The girl is Carly. She was diagnosed with severe Autism and mild mental retardation. She has never spoken a word to anyone until now, the age of 14 where she was placed in front of a laptop. She started typing words. ICT has helped Carly and his dad to communicate like a normal person. After few moths of therapy, she had improved so much that she can have online chat with her dad.

In the video, her dad was interviewed and I personally think he was an inspirational parent in sense of having faith in his child.  Here are the highlights of the interview.

Carly’s dad said “When you look into Carly’s eye and you see an innate intelligence…so we never gave up…we never gave up”.

At one point of time, he was asked whether to put Carly in a mental institution and he replied “I couldn’t…I will never do it”.

I hope the rest will watch the video and love it as I did!