My iPad touch pad is requiring harder tapping. This is first iPad. Any solution?

Start with a reboot, hold both the power and home buttons until the apple logo appears and it restarts, ignoring the red slider if that appears.
Then make sure your fingers are clean when touching the screen, and if you have a screen protector on the screen see if you can remove it and does that help.
The screen is not pressure sensitive so taping harder really doesn't have any effect unless you are not making good electrical contact with the screen. The iPad uses capacitance technology that is entirely elecrical state change dependent. So if you have a screen protector that can interfere and cause that behavior.
If none of this helps, it may just be an aging unit, and would do well to be tested by the techs at an Apple store genius bar.

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Hello *,
before someone should have the same problem, I wanted to share my problem and my solution here:
Information about my system:
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_*Problem:*_
The Touch Pad suddenly doesn't work below Windows 8.1 Professional anymore, the mouse pointer vanishes after a reboot. You can't deactivate/activate the Touch Pad with the F5 key (without pressing the FN-button) anymore. The white LED of the Touch Pad doesn't work anymore. Another operating system (in my case: Scientific Linux) in Dual Boot doesn't recognize the Touch Pad anymore after a reboot, too. So it isn't working below the other operating system anymore, too. It looks like a hardware defect since it affects more than one operating system.
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If you attach an external USB mouse to your Toshiba notebook, the Touch Pad will work again, you can activate/deactivate the Touch Pad via the F5 key (without pressing the FN-button) below Windows 8.1 again, but the white LED of the Touch Pad still doesn't work and doesn't turn off or on. Same below another operating system in Dual Boot. The BIOS doesn't offer a feature that you can activate or deactivate the Touch Pad there.
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Can anyone please help?
I have had an iPad Version 1 for about 9 months with no problems.
A couple of weeks ago I installed the new iOS5 operating system.
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Hi Jim,
Thank you so much for your response and advice.
I have rebooted my wireless router as you instructed and my iPad now seems to be working ok with the wireless connection.
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