When a Autism Kid meets Siri
21:03 Jwen 0 Comments Category :
An article titled "To Siri, With Love-- How One Boy With Autism Become BFF with Apple's Siri" , in which was published on the New York Times, touched many people's heart. The story is about a boy named Gus, who suffered a lot from Autism, happened to own an iPhone on his birthday. And it's also the first day he met the Apple's intelligent personal assistant, Siri.
Autism is a kind of neurodevelopmental disorder, which weakens social performance, verbal or non-verbal communication of their patient. From the day Gus met Siri, he tried really hard to have a chat with it, which turns out that in the long run, Siri might be able to help Gus improve his symptom of Autism. If he wants to have a nice chat with Siri, he should try really hard, and does his best to rephrase words and meanings into something that Siri understands.
Though there's no scientific proof that Siri can actually help with the Autism patient, Gus' case shows that we're wrong that we think people with Autism have no personal need in social actions, and it's totally wrong when we thought Autism patients don't really cares about others.
Resource: New York Times
