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In this video guys,
I'm talking about
IPad settings that are gonna help improve the lives of people on the Autism Spectrum.
And it's very simple and easy to do.
I'm gonna show you, how to do it right now.
Okay guys, just before we get into the juicy bits of the video,
I'd just like to read out some questions and co-comments.
And answer some questions that you guys have asked me over on
Instagram. Now if you want me to answer your question on
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with a chance to be featured in video just like this when I ask my next questions. Okay, so [clears throat]
The first question here is from Christinewjacobson
Christinewjacobson and they said: "Have you ever found yourself in a situation that
you've found it difficult to calm yourself down?"
I have a few times. Um, it's, it normally then leads on to something bigger:
Like a meltdown stuff that I don't really
enjoy that much. Obviously a meltdown or like a breakdown
or something like that...
And um yeah, it just, it's going to happen from time to time. because, you can't predict how your body
and your mind is going to treat
you every single time you get distressed. Okay...
so, the next question is from dinagee03 (deena'n'03)
dinagee03 and they said: "How long did it take you to reach a 100,000 subscribers?"
"Congratulations on 100,000 subscribers." It actually took me from...
uh...
January 2018 to...
uh...
August, awesome, August
2019.
So, uh yeah, that's how long it took me to get a hundred thousand subscribers. Okay,
the last question here is from clburgess83 and he says: "Why aren't you diagnosed with Autism until you were
an adult?" Now,
I wasn't diagnosed until,
I was 26 years old. Because where I lived in Wales, in rural parts of Wales in
the United Kingdom:
Back in the 90s, when I was going through assessments and seeing doctors and stuff.
It just wasn't possible to diagnose someone with Autism
here because there wasn't the facilities, or the people or the experts.
So, that's pretty much why. Woo, got to take a cheeky drink of water.
[drinking] [takes breath]
Yeah, gotta stay hydrated guys. Gotta stay hydrated.
Right. [takes breath]
Okay, so I have my iPad here and I'm going to go through um, five of the best kind of like, hacks that I found with
this. And I'm gonna record the screen and I'll put it on here
somewhere.
So, if I disappear it and the screen of the iPad comes up, it's because, well
it's just because I'm doing that for that reason.
So, the first most amazing part of this whole kind of iPad is: You have the speech-to-text function.
Which, is basically a dictation software.
So, there's a little microphone button on the iPad, as you can see here at the bottom. And if you tap this
[takes breath]
You can enable dictation. And basically, I can talk to the iPad and it will produce
what I'm saying in text format. [takes breath] Now,
this is awesome.
Because, people who have an issue with like typing and consistency,
especially if you have, if you have ADHD comorbid with Autism. And you're trying and you can't sit still enough to
type out.
But you can talk very well. This dictation software built into the iPad
is going to be fantastic.
This also works with um like, text messaging on the iPad or anytime you can type in the iPad, this will work with it.
So, this is a fantastic way to do this. Now also, on the contrary to that
[takes breath]
It also has a speak function.
So, if you highlight the words, um and then there is a speak function.
So you can see that speak.
So, you see how I turned it on there. Um, you can click the speech and it will start
IPAD text to speech: "I can talk to the iPad and it will
produce what I'm saying in text format." IPAD: "This dictation software built into the iPad
is going to be fantastic."
So, you can pause it at any time.
Um, this actually works for any PDF or any text that is actually tangible on the iPad.
That means you look if you can touch it and like move things around or like highlight and copy and paste the
text...
Then you can actually highlight it.
So, what I do with books sometimes if I haven't got an audio book, but I download a PDF
I can highlight the words in the PDF. And then you can just press speak and
it'll speak the whole thing right out.
Which is just amazing. Okay guys, so number two is actually
something very, very interesting.
So, on the iPad if you go to... So, you go to your settings and
then you scroll down you see
"General" and then you click "Accessibility." Then you have a bunch of different things here.
We'll get into accessibility in a minute.
Now, one of the best things is the "Display Accommodations."
In here, you have something called invert colours.
Now, if you click on smart invert, what happens is it gives you this less harsh,
dark, look for your iPads kind of settings and displays and stuff like that as you can see here.
This is way easier, It's like dark mode,
you know from dark mode on Twitter and YouTube and stuff now.
Now the reason I find this very, very helpful is because some people, um
who have Sensory Processing Disorder co-morbidly with autism,
they may get triggered by the lightness of the screen and especially at nighttime.
This can be really daunting and we can keep you know, you awake and then trigger it for quite a long time.
So, having this inverted dark mode is pretty cool. There's also an inverted classic mode,
which is slightly different and It does the same type of thing.
But you can see like, the the back screen here is, is a different colour.
Um, and slightly less harsh colours. It's just basically inverting all them colours.
I think it's a great tool to have, um,
and I really enjoy it. But the function of it just makes it so much easier and
less harsh on your eyes. Which I find,
Very, very helpful. OK guys, number three is the
Accessibility of the iPad. Now iPad again, if you go to "Settings", "General" and
If you scroll down here, you will see something called "Accessibility".
So, you can see accessibility.
And then basically you have all these different,
accessibility features right there. So, that you can put large text on if you want large text.
There's also the ability to turn everything to bold text. The bold text is on now.
You can also um, reduce the or increase the contrast. There's a loads of different things.
You can switch the controls here. There's "AssistiveTouch" which is um,
Basically, where if you turn "AssistiveTouch" on you've got this thing here where you can use that, as like a, you-
know, you can get access to your home
button like this. Or you can like, double tap it and then get back to kind of like where you were.
It's basically like having your home button, but on the screen if you really need it.
So, I find this one very very useful, especially if you've got like, um, you know a cover over the buttons.
I found it very, very good. So, turn "Assistive Touch" off.
Right, there is something called "Guided Access" and I find this one very, very good, especially for parents.
So, "Guided Access" is basically if you turn it on, right? And you've set a pass-code, let's, let's just um...
You know "Guided Access" pass-code so...
Let's just do: One, two, three, four, zeros. One, two, three, four, zeros. (0000)
And basically, what it means is that you can lock an app on the screen.
So say we wanted to lock on the notes.
So, you triple tap the home button. [tapping home button]
And then you've got this "Guided Access" and you click start and that means that like, you can stay on this app.
But you can't get off it.
The home button doesn't work and you know that that's it.
You just own this one app. So if you...
[tapping home button]
Triple tap it again, it'll ask you for your pass-code and then you have options available for like, turning on, uh
you know different bits and pieces.
So, what you can do is you can end "Guided Access" and then
you can go back to normal and use the buttons, as is. S,o I find guided access is very, very good, um
It's a very good one for like limiting somebody to just one app,
if you need it. One of most amazing parts of the Accessibility feature
is the voice over.
Now, This is very good for people who have got hard of reading.
So, basically when you send VoiceOver on- VOICEOVER: VoiceOver On When you- [voice over]
- hold over like a piece of text,
DAN: it'll talk. VOICEOVER: "Bullet, tap once to select an item."
[taps mic] [takes breath]
DAN: So you..
VOICEOVER: "Bullet, To go home slide one finger up from the bottom edge until you hear the second sound and lift
your finger."
VOICEOVER: "Voiceover speaks items on the screen." DAN: The thing is a super super awesome. I love it.
VOICEOVER: VoiceOver, on.
VOICEOVER: VoiceOver on. [clicking noises] VoiceOver on.
So, you can turn it off by triple tapping the screen and a double tapping the screen.
It gives you all the the bits and pieces on here that you can see.
Um, and I just find it very, very good. There's also a Braille: Audio, Rotor and Rotor Actions.
Um, this is very interesting.
I don't know all these settings. If you'd like me to go through all these in another video:
Give this one a thumbs up.
And we'll go over it. But I absolutely love the accessibility features of this.
It makes for a really good tablet, basically.
Okay guys, so number four is the Reminders app.
Now, one thing I am terrible with is remembering to do anything.
That's why I have reminders that set me to do absolutely everything.
So, I've got like, you know: Call work, call my counsellor, put the black pin out.
Um, all of these things are,
things that I would forget. Now, I think to myself like if somebody tells me:
"Hey Dan, tomorrow you've got to here and do this."
And then I'd forget, just easily forget. But, if I hold down the Siri button...
[Siri beeps]
Hey, Siri,
remind me to drink water tomorrow at 1 p.m.
[Siri beeps]
SIRI: "Okay, I'll remind you."
So, Siri just does it. You just- I just remember to ask for my water.
I ask my iPad and it'll set, set it into my reminders and sync it.
Now, the Reminders app is amazing. Because like, you can do like,
location-specific Reminders app. You can be like: "Remind me to buy bread at Tesco."
And then when you get to Tesco, or when you get to the shopping market or whatever...
It'll know your location and I'll remind you as you're there. It'll be like "bing!", you know,
"Buy bread right now from here." - blah blah blah.
So, that is a very, very handy app. The Reminders app has saved my bacon a few times.
Okay, so fifth and finally. This one is the "Word Look Up".
I love this one. Okay, so we're in "Notes".
Now, people on the Spectrum obviously of difficulty with Social Communications and understanding flows of conversation.
If you're in a chat application, or a chat like language, or an email or anything like that.
And you're- and you're talking to and fro with somebody.
One of the things I have issues with is knowing what people are um...
What people are saying in what context. Like how is the word used in the context.
Now if you, highlight the word and click Select. Then you have the ability to look up that word.
So if you click on lookup... [looking up the word software]
What the iPad does is then it gives you a dictionary and kind of like thesaurus overview of what "software" is.
And kind of like an example of it.
You can actually go deeper into the dictionary and look at the exact versions of it.
And I find this amazing because, what you can do is you can listen to it. You can get them to speak it.
IPAD: "Software"
So you don't have to see it. Then you can also look it up and look how it's used.
That is just mind-blowing. Okay guys, So now it's just some of the features,
available on the Apple iPad as it was.
Now, these are fascinating abilities that an iPad can do. And this is just the standard.
This is an "iPad Air" like a Gen iPad Air 2 or something.
I'm actually gonna buy the "iPad Pro" because that there's a lot more stuff.
I'd like to look at different apps and using the pencil and stuff.
So, if you guys would like to see a video all about
more accessibility and more help for people and apps for people on the Autism Spectrum specifically on the iPad,
we can do like a more in-depth detailed version of it with the iPad Pro.
Looking at better apps, games and things like that to help people on the Spectrum.
This is more of like accessibility. How like the basic hardware, like the basic iPad
can help somebody on the spectrum.
This video is not sponsored by Apple. And um, I'd love I would love to do a video with Apple at some point.
But this video is not sponsored by them.
If you like this video, please let me know in the comments section below.
Because, I read and respond to every single comment and I would love to hear from
each and every one of you.
Thank you so much for watching guys and I'll see you next time.
Peace!
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