ZAC Browser
I was reading the Search Engine blog on the CBC website and came across an interesting post on web browsers for children with autism. The ZAC Browser is a web browser specifically for children with autism. ZAC Browser was created by the grandparents of Zackary, a 6 year-old child with autism. They created the browser, which is free to download, so their grandson could use the internet without becoming overwhelmed, confused, and frustrated by the number of choices usually found on a regular internet browser as well as from the abundance of websites on the internet. From what I understand, the ZAC browser limits the number of websites the user can access and is also designed for easier navigation. There is a nice video, made by AP, about this story on the ZAC Browser website (same video as the one ebeded here). I also found an autism search engine they created called Zac Search. One neat feature about the search engine is it has tabs for the highest rated as well as the most visited websites about autism.
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Very cool Corrine, I had not heard about this. Very neat.
Thanks so much for this post! I hadn’t heard of it either. I have one autistic student in my mainstream class who would greatly benefit from using the browser and will see to downloading it at work first thing tomorrow.