Pardon the grammar, but this field is wide open. Only imaginations can stop those talented people able to think and act on their dreams and ideas.
I can foresee the day, and I am not very imaginative, when children have personal assistants geared to their needs much as we will have them meeting ours.
There will come a day when parents will not have to worry what will become of their autistic children when they are unable to care for them. The robotics ten or twenty years from now will be nothing short of miraculous in what they can do, if we stay sane in using our gained knowledge.
Teddy Ruxpin would have been much more amazing in the 50's than it was in the 70's and it is all a progression, a work in progress. I hope that an infinitely patient, properly programmed robot helps to teach, and care for those in need. There really are no bounds. Everything is smaller, capable of so much, and so much to come.
It starts with a parent or teacher who observes what may work with a child in a home or classroom and reports this so that as robots progress, they are filled with what works, what is needed, what can help us humans teach and take care of each other. Those fine minds about whom you report will make it happen.
Hey Paul!
Nice to see you here. I agree with you..we have not seen all the future possibilties yet. I think robots are simply an extension of the technical capabilities we have right now with computers. It could be a fresh and novel way to reach kids who are otherwise not so reachable. I think it is worth a try to expand our current technology in this field of robotics.
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I currently homeschool my child, age 8, so that he gets more personal one-on-one time. I use a program funded and supplied by the State of California Department of Education (CAVA) which provides complete transcripts, testing, etc.
My child is working at one or two grades above what he would be at if in the public school system. He exhibits classic ADHD systems and is not medicated and is doing extraordinarly well. The flexibility has proved to be extremely valuable.
The thoughts of having a robot teach my child is somewhat scary, but I am sure there are applications where it would make perfectly good sense.
The current student-to-teacher ratio is very high and it makes it difficult for each student to have their individual needs met.
Hello and nice to meet you!
I am also homeschooling my son and have been for many years...he is now a teen. I agree with you...the current school system does not have enough resources to meet some children's needs and they keep cutting back each year. I am so happy that homeschooling is a choice...never thought I would be doing it...have one son in the public school system and it works well for him...but for my youngest who has special needs...the services were not adequate to meet his needs.
It is exciting to see these technological advances...I would be curious to see how my son would respond to a robot. I see it as a nice supplement...a new way to get through and teach certain skills.
Thank you so much for your comment and I hope to hear more from you on this site.