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Education Desk

iPads Allow Kids With Challenges To Play In High School Band

NPR | By Eric Westervelt

Published June 11, 2013 at 11:13 AM CDT

Tablet computers and a creative teacher have helped open doors for some kids with serious learning disabilities and autism spectrum disorders. The P.S. 177 Technology Band is in Queens, N.Y.

Education Desk

Eric Westervelt

Eric Westervelt is a San Francisco-based correspondent for NPR's National Desk. He has reported on major events for the network from wars and revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa to historic wildfires and terrorist attacks in the U.S.

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