Benjamin loves iPhone/iPod touch. No, I don't think Apple had autistics in mind when they designed them. But that's just it. Apple designed it so intuitively, practically anyone can fiddle with it and figure it out without instruction.
One morning, after my shower, I found him in his room, playing with his mom's iPod touch. He swiped it out of our room, turned it on, unlocked it, navigated through the home screen, found his favorite applications, and launched it (currently either Banner and Peanut Butter Jelly Time). He probably did this multiple times on this morning because he likes the transition between the home screen and the app when it's launched. But we still have to supervise him. It might actually make sense to set up a pass key to discourage him from swiping it. Then again, that might backfire.
Here he is using my iPhone:
So far, there are only two things I have to really watch him on. First, he still likes to put things in his mouth, especially objects he really likes. This hasn't happened yet, that I'm aware of. Second, he tends to accidentally get the home screen into "uninstall/move" mode. The main reason this happens is because sometimes he doesn't realize his other fingers are touching the icons. Touching the icons on the home screen for more than a couple seconds causes it to switch into this mode. When this happens, all the icons shake and non-Apple apps can be removed by tapping the X. He hasn't managed to uninstall anything yet.
There is a feature in the Settings that allows Restrictions on various features. It'd be nice if "uninstall" was one of the listed restrictions, but it's not as of OS version 2.2.1.
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