Whitworth students create electronic learning system for 6

SPOKANE, Wash. — Whitworth University students unveiled an electronic learning system for a 6-year-old boy with cerebral palsy who starts first grade this week.

Engineering and therapy students worked since spring to create the equipment for Ryken Lancaster. He has cerebral palsy, so school looks different for him.

Ryken gets visits at home from physical and occupational therapists, plus speech, hearing and vision therapists. Before the new system, therapy was difficult.

"Typically we have him on the floor or someone's holding him at the same time. You're holding materials in front. Someone has to hold the flashlight and he's low to the ground so everyone's kind of crouching around him," Ryken's mother Tianna Farnes said.

The new equipment changes how Ryken learns. It allows him to wor