Hi Traveling Bug,
Could you please tell me the brand name of the gps device
My son has Autism and this story makes me realize he needs one
This is the one they have -
Amber Alert GPS.
You buy the device and pay a monthly monitoring amount on a subscription based plan depending on the services you want. You can access from a computer or phone.
There's an SOS button so your child can alert you if there's an incident, and you can have SOS alerts sent to others (up to 10 people) as well.
It can show the speed at which they are travelling (to know if they were taken in a car, etc. Or if you're worried about the speeds your kids drive!)
You can set 'zone' alerts if you want it to notify you if your child has entered or exited a particular zone (like around your home/yard or their school, sports practice location, church, or wherever they go regularly). That can also be sent to others on your list.
You can opt to have it notify you if they're within a certain distance of the residence of any documented sexual predator, etc.
And then you can do the voice thing (apparently it goes either way, I thought it was only that you could listen to them, but apparently they can call you) but only you can listen to them.
My understanding is that even if you don't have the plan with all the features that in the case of a true emergency the voice feature can be activated, but I'd suspect that may take more time.
My friends have the highest plan just so they have all the tools at their resource at any time and there's no delay.
It's a pretty nifty thing!
And like I said (or maybe it was my earlier post about it) they attach it to her belt (on her side so she doesn't hit it leaning back or throwing herself on the ground) or her belt loops or band of her pants and she doesn't really even realize it's there b/c to her it's just something everyone has in her mind apparently (and this is a bright girl who gets into stuff and she doesn't mess with it - I think just being discrete when they first started using it helped).
They attach it to her shoe laces if she's in a dress or something that doesn't really have something to attach it to pants wise. Shoe laces, if it's laced through well, might be the best place to put it as far as it being harder for a kid to get it off (or slower). And if someone really tried to take a child, I don't suspect they'd think to look at their shoes.
If you had an older child who had a phone, I know there are similar things you can do on a phone or itouch, but if someone took your child, that perhaps could get snatched or left I'd think.
They're grateful for it, that's for sure! They were having an issue at school a few years ago and they used the voice thing periodically to listen briefly to be sure all was ok - so even in other situations it can be helpful.
Hope that helps
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