Grandfather builds Web browser for autistic boy

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Six year old Zackary Villeneuve who is autistic uses the Zac browser at his home in Saint Remi Quebec Sunday June 1 2008. The Web browser was developed by his grandfather John LeSieur for use by autsitic children. (AP PhotoThe Canadian Press Graham H ...
Six year old Zackary Villeneuve, who is autistic, uses the 'Zac browser' at his home in Saint Remi, Quebec, Sunday, June 1, 2008. The Web browser was developed by his grandfather John LeSieur for use by autsitic children. (AP Photo/The Canadian Press, Graham Hughes)

(AP) -- John LeSieur is in the software business, so he took particular interest when computers seemed mostly useless to his 6-year-old grandson, Zackary. The boy has autism, and the whirlwind of options presented by PCs so confounded him that he threw the mouse in frustration.


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