The Whitewater Breakfast Kiwanis gave away its 10th iPad recently to local student Allie Prince thanks to a generous donation by Matt Bowditch of Burtness Chevrolet.
Angela Palmer, Speech-Language Pathologist for the Whitewater Unified School District, spoke to members of the Kiwanis Breakfast Club about Prince being a candidate for an iPad through the project.
This was the 10th iPad presented to a child or young adult with autism in the Whitewater area in the past two years through the Kiwanis Wisconsin-Upper Michigan District’s Autism Project.
Allie and her mom, Bonnie, along with Jerry Grant, President of Kiwanis Whitewater Breakfast Club, stopped in at Burtness Chevrolet in Whitewater recently to personally thank Bowditch for donating the funds that helped Allie be presented the iPad and allowed it to be presented by the Whitewater Kiwanis Breakfast Club.
A number of fund raising projects have taken place over the past two years to support the iPads project.
According to a press release from the Kiwanis, when the request was presented to the club, Bowditch immediately stepped in and donated the funds for the iPad and an application that helps Allie communicate on a daily basis. Prior, Angela Palmer, who works with Allie in the Early Childhood Learning program at Lakeview Elementary School, made 2×2 laminated squares that represented words and photos. This allowed Allie to make sentences and phrases to communicate. She is now able to achieve a higher level of communication through an application on the iPad to communicate at school and at home.
