iPad is a delivery system
It's a touch screen integrated into a relatively low powered computer. Having worked in assistive technologies for close to twenty years you learn the golden rule is pick the software first then the hardware to match. iPads have brought the touch screen computer that is genuinely a laptop for a kid -- i.e you can put it in a kids lap comfortably. Its done it cheaply. And the programming for the laptop has made it relatively easy for people to create multi-media applications. But find the applications first that works and then chose if an iPad or an android or a full computer will work. As many kids for whom the iPad form factor and cost is a boon for others it will be underpowered and deliver limited and inflexible accessibility options.
