When Beaverton High School students learned that a special-education autistic classmate of theirs, Aaron DeMo was non-verbal, they joined forces to give him a voice. They embarked on fund-raising activities to buy DeMo a computer that will speak for him. Project Aaron was established to give the boy a device that "speaks complete sentences when the user presses a series of buttons, with icons for everything from food to action verbs." Aaron's speech pathologist says the computer will increase his social skills and even allow him to text his siblings or IM his peers. Currently Aaron's favorite button is the one that responds "ha ha ha."
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