iPad App Helps Judy Miles Regain Speech After Brain Injury

[onehandle]

After a near-fatal hit and run accident robbed her of speech and the ability to walk, no one thought Judy Miles would ever speak again. But thanks to a revolutionary iPad app, Miles is getting her voice -- and her life -- back, USA Today reports.

When Miles, a 55-year-old former nurse from Sioux Falls, S.D., was struck by a pickup truck last year, her head injuries were so severe that part of her brain had to be removed.

"She died on the operating table twice in surgery. It was bleak," her brother Paul Mugge told USA Today. "She had so many broken bones. She didn't move her right arm or right leg for six months."

"Speech was the worst. They couldn't make any promises. They thought she might be a vegetable if she survived at all."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/09/ipad-app-helps-woman-judy_n_1412349.html

Made me think of gun victim, Rep. Gabby Giffords. They used an iPad in her therapy too.

[mucifer]

1. with simple apps our music therapist helps the kids in our palliative care and hospice programs

play musical instruments with very small movements of their hands. This makes them very happy!

[onehandle]

2. I can imagine.

I cannot play any instrument, but music apps on iOS devices are so easy.

I can see them producing a smile in those kids.