A classical pianist who teaches music at a school in Queens, New York, says that iPads have allowed students with learning disabilities to play music for the first time – and that experience has transformed their lives.
One of the students who had never spoken before not only now speaks, but also sings the solo in a song he helped write …
Tim Cook tweeted a link to a CBS news piece on the experiment, saying that it ‘makes our heart sing.’
Pianist Adam Goldberg said that students struggled to play conventional instruments.
CBS said that he was stumped until a friend suggest ‘an instrument almost anyone can play: an iPad.’
School principal Cathy Post said that she was astonished by what she saw.
‘I already kind of knew that even if it wasn’t as awesome as I’d hoped in my head, it would still be really good. My students kind of surpassed my version of awesome into something even beyond that.’
One of the boy’s parents said that he cried the first time he saw his son play.
The full report below is well worth watching.
