Playing on a Tablet as Therapy

IOWA CITY, Iowa -- Griffin Wajda normally doesn't answer questions. Often, the 10-year-old boy will mumble repeated phrases before being coaxed to talk.
But at a once-a-week afterschool program run by University of Iowa researchers at an elementary school here, he has started opening up. Recently sitting in front of a Dell touch-screen tablet computer, he traced a big circle with a stylus around a group of stick figures drawn moments before by his brother seated across from him. When his mother asked him to explain the picture, he replied, "Summer school."