New app helps those with special needs make friends

For those with special needs, it can be difficult at times to make friends, but a new app is helping people with autism and other conditions connect with others.

Ben Raskin developed the free app Friendi after witnessing first-hand the difficulties a neighbor in California faced when trying to make friends. The app is specifically marketed to parents and guardians of people with autism, Asperger's and Down syndrome.
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Parents control the messages sent in the app, which also allows them to find resources for people with special needs.

"I just wanted to put a great big banner over my house and say 'Needed: Friends,'" the parent of a child with special needs said of the void the app fills.
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