Apple Watch’s Noise App Assists an Autistic Man
Last November, People featured a piece on how select functions in the Apple Watch helped to encourage and teach a family’s autistic son, 21-year-old Sam Bennett, how to act in select social settings. Specifically, the watch offered visual data that helped to show how loud his voice could be when he wasn’t consciously controlling said volume levels, mainly due to issues with a short attention span. According to Scott, Sam’s father, the color feature (as volume goes up, the color shifts from green to yellow to red) helped show his son how loud he was and would make managing his social presence in quieter affairs much more straightforward. Scott hopes that this app will introduce habits that will help encourage his son to maintain a quiet voice at more reserved events, such as golfing or in theatres.