It sure would have been nice if this child had already learned to type. Are any of you familiar with Amanda Baggs? She is an autistic lady who posts videos of her life and experiences on Youtube. Dr. Sanjay Gupta, the MD for ABC News discovered one of her video's and did a piece on it. Here is a link to the video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnylM1hI2jc
She explained by her electronic keyboard which has a speech element, that it was a video which represents how she interacts with her world. She is humming, what I find to be a very beautiful and haunting melody that is overlayed with her standing in front of her window "interacting" with what she "sees" outside and with her making noises with objects that she finds interesting both by the "sounds" they make, and by the "shape" that they are. She also frequently blogs about many different issues in life, and that can be found here:
http://ballastexistenz.autistics.org/
My heart just breaks for the boy in this story. With limited means to communite and experience the world, he has now been denied one of them. What was the aunt thinking? Why did it take so long for help to be summoned?