iPad giveaways for kids with special needs: here's another!

I've been wishing I could do more iPad giveaways for kids with special needs. And then, I got an email from a reader, Deborah, who lives in San Francisco and works for a non-profit. Deborah has an iPad she'd like to give to one of our kids. As she wrote, "My husband recently received an iPad as a Christmas bonus from his boss and so now we have two. I remember seeing several posts about an iPad giveaway gone awry and the many parents who commented how much they would appreciate one for their child—as well as posts about Max's iPad really opening up a whole new world for him. So we thought, why not give one of our iPads to a family who could actually benefit from having one, and would use it for something more useful than reading People magazine and playing Scrabble!"

So, I have Deborah's iPad to give away to a child with special needs who will benefit from it.

Here it is: It's the original iPad, 16GB with WiFi, model A12919, in silver. It's in great shape. As Deborah says, "It was purchased Christmas 2010 and hasn't left the house since it was purchased."

To enter this giveaway, please leave a comment about how your child with special needs could benefit from an iPad. You do not have to say a lot, but you do need to leave an email if one is not visible on your blog.

Please note, if you already entered the iPad giveaway I did in July, you can just write "I entered the July giveaway and would like to be entered here" BUT you have to use the same username as your original entry (and, again, make sure I have your email).

The winner will be asked to provide a letter of need from a speech therapist or doctor in their child's life. The letter from the therapist or doctor must include her qualifications and contact information so that he or she can be contacted to verify that, indeed, the recipient is a child in need of an iPad.

RULES OF ENTRY

• This giveaway is open until Thursday, March 1, 2012 at 11:59 ET.

• The giveaway is open to residents of the U.S. and Canada.

• Valid email address required, so I can reach you. If your email is not visible on your blog, you will need to leave it with your comment. If there is no email, your entry is disqualified.

• One entry per family, please.

• No entries accepted past the deadline.

WINNER DETERMINATION

• One winner will be chosen at random via random.org within 24 hours when the giveaway is closed, and I will email you to let you know you have won. This is not a merit-based giveaway; all kids who could benefit from iPads and speech apps deserve to have them.

• If I do not hear back from a winner within seven business days, another winner will be chosen.

• If a winner does not produce a letter from their child's speech therapist or doctor within two weeks of being informed of the win, another winner will be selected.

Good luck! I wish I had iPads to give away to each and every one of you.

UPDATE: The winner of the iPad, chosen via random.org, is Jen Wen. I hope to have at least one other iPad to give away this year; every one of your kids deserves one.