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Early Childhood AT Ellie Hamilton, M.A.Ed., Assistive Technology Specialist, Special Education Consultant

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What is AT?

Assistive technology (AT) can be thought of as any

item that supports a child's ability to participate

actively in his or her home, childcare program,

school, or other community settings. It is a broad

term that includes items ranging from something as

"low tech" as a foam wedge for positioning to

something as "high tech" as a power wheelchair for

independent mobility. Other examples of assistive

technology for young children include items such

as switch-operated toys, laminated picture boards,

head pointers, specialized drinking cups, adapted

spoons, augmentative and alternative

communication (AAC) devices, computers, and

more.

Assistive Technology EC Examples

www.ctdinstitute.org

Assistive Technology EC Examples

letsparticipate.org

health.oregonstate.edu/gobabygo

when a child with a disability needs an item in order to do something he/she couldn’t do

without it…

it becomes his or her AT.

letsparticipate.org

Benefits of AT for Infants & Young Children

Assistive devices and services can be of great value in

providing infants and young children with disabilities

opportunities to learn and interact with their environment

in ways that might not otherwise be possible.

Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center University of North Carolina

ectacenter.org

Benefits of AT for Infants & Young Children

● Participate more actively in the family, school, and community activities

● Play successfully with toys and other children ● Communicate his or her needs and ideas ● Make Choices ● Move Independently

ectacenter.org

Zero to Three

The first three years of life are a period of incredible growth in all areas of baby’s development. The earliest relationships with caregivers can promote healthy brain development.

www.zerotothree.org

Zero to Three

Age-based Tips

Birth to 3 Months

3 to 6 Months

6 to 9 Months

9 to 12 Months

AT Link

www.zerotothree.org

12 to 15 Months

15 to 18 Months

18 to 24 Months

24 to 30 Months

30 to 36 Months

DEC Recommended Practices

E4 Practitioners work with families or other adults to identify each child’s needs for AT to promote access to and participation in learning experiences.

E5 Practitioners work with families and other adults to acquire or create appropriate AT to promote each child’s access to and participation in learning experiences.

www.dec-sped.org

Iowa Early Learning Standards The Role of Technology and Interactive Media

The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) discourages all screen media for

children less than 18 months of age, except video chatting with the assistance of

a caring adult.

For children ages 18-24 months, it is recommended that caregivers use high

quality, educational media and use that technology to interact with the child.

Further, children two to five years of age should be limited to one hour per day

of high quality screen time, alongside a caring adult who can help them

understand what they view and how to apply it to the world around them (AAP,

2016).

www.educateiowa.gov

Iowa Early Learning Standards The Role of Technology and Interactive Media

Children can learn about technology when provided opportunities to explore and experience media in age-appropriate ways (Roskos, Burstein,You, Brueck, & O'Brien, 2011).

It is essential during technology exploration that adults are present to supervise, to interact with children, and to frame the learning. This helps children understand what they view and to apply it to the world around them (Labbo, 2009; Turbill, 2001).

www.educateiowa.gov

Iowa Early Learning Standards The Role of Technology and Interactive Media

What the Use of Technology and Interactive Media Means for Families

● Families know that technology is a part of our culture and an important tool for communication and learning. However, technology is not a substitute for one-on-one time with family members. Intentional use of technology can support children’s development in areas such as literacy, mathematics, and science.

● Families can provide opportunities for children to use technology together, such as reading digital storybooks or watching a favorite developmentally appropriate children’s show together.

● It is critical that families protect children from excessive amounts of ‘screen time,’ as well as inappropriate media, such as violent programs. Instead, families must recognize that children learn through play, and providing extended periods of time playing with their children is important.

● Restricting use of technology during meals and for one hour before bedtime is recommended (AAP, 2016).

www.educateiowa.gov

Team Member Roles

Parent(s)

Teacher(s) includes daycare provider

OT

PT

SLP

Other service providers

Advocate

AT Specialist /team member

Administrators

Assistive Tech (AT)

Under IDEA, AT can be used as an accommodation for students with disabilities.

AT is defined as, “any item, piece of equipment, or product system, whether acquired commercially off the shelf, modified, or customized, that is used to increase, maintain or improve functional capabilities of a child with a disability.”

Accommodations

Accommodations allow a student to complete the same assignment, test, or activity as other students, but with a change in timing, formatting, setting, scheduling, or presentation. The material is the same, but a student learns the material in a different way.

Modifications

Modifications adjust an assignment, test, or activity in a way that changes the standard or alters the original measurement. Modifications change what a student is taught or expected to learn.

Say “Hello friends” or “How are you?” during morning routine or meeting.

Accommodation: Allowed extra time to greet peers

Modification: Wave to peers

Assistive technology: Use speech output device to greet peers

Communication

Sign-in by writing name on a whiteboard upon entering the classroom

Fine Motor

Accommodation: Provide a larger

whiteboard so there is more room to write

Modification: Write only the first letter of the name

Assistive technology: Use letter cards to “build” the name instead of writing it

Remain seated during snack time

Functional Skills

Original task: Remain seated during Accommodation: Sit at a smaller table with just a few peers to minimize distractions

Modification: Stand at the table while eating snack

Assistive technology: Use a weighted lap blanket or “wiggle seat” while sitting at the table

WATI

Wisconsin

Assistive

Technology

Initiative

Birth to Three

Wisconsin Assistive Technology Initiative received a grant from the Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services to provide Birth to

Three agencies with seven literacy kits.

Literacy Kits

Big and Little

Counting Bears

Find the Puppet

London Bridge

If You See a cow

One Two, What Should We Do?

Twinkle Twinkle Little Star

Laundry Basket ideas:

● Access to play ● Bathtime (with supervision

ALWAYS) ● Stander for young toddler (flip it

over and child leans on the top) ● Attach sensory items for play

Writing supports

DIY Slant board

Pencil grip

Keyguard

Broken crayons

The Cuddle Bright

Experience

CuddleBright Experience™ integrates years of child development theory, clinical practice, and the latest

neuroscience research to help parents gain knowledge and confidence while creating a loving connection with their

child—healthy bonds build healthy brains. CuddleBright offers a way to connect, comfort, and calm both parent and

child during times of separation and transition.

Crawl Ahead By Lite Gait

crawlahead.com

Hold Everything ! 2014

Twenty “Stay-Put” Play Spaces

for Infants and Preschoolers with

Sensory Impairments and Other Special Needs

Hold Everything

Upsee Mobility Device fireflyfriends.com/us/upsee

DEC Recommended Practices

E6 Practitioners create environments that provide opportunities for movement and regular activity to maintain or improve fitness, wellness, and development across domains.

www.dec-sped.org

Physical Activity Apps

Iron kids (Developed by AAP) The app centers around nine exercises that involve the lower body, upper body, and core. Videos are included to help your kids understand how they can do the exercises and how those exercises benefit them.

Strava application that allows you to map your walks, bike rides, and hikes and time each journey, so you can show your children how much they’ve accomplished in a certain scope of time.

Fitness Kids is an application designed by experts in the fields of pedagogy, physical education, and health. Packed with interesting exercises for children between the ages of 6 and eight, this app teaches children each movement through the use of colorful, engaging videos.

Super Stretch Yoga HD your child can start trying out poses modeled by children of their own age, letting them stretch out their limbs and show off their skills. The application includes a total of twelve different yoga poses for your child to perfect, each with its own description and accompanying video.

www.aap.org

More Physical Activity

The AAP also recommends reducing sedentary behaviors.

One way to achieve this is to have fewer TV sets in the home and to remove the TV and other media from the bedroom and the kitchen.

Children who sleep less than 9 hours a night are more likely to be overweight or obese; focusing on bedtime, and understanding how much sleep children need at various ages can help improve a child’s overall health and well-being.

www.aap.org

Mayo Clinic infant and toddler health

Research examining the specific effects of baby DVDs and other infant programming is limited. However, a 2010 study found no evidence that children ages 1 to 2 learned words highlighted in a Baby Einstein DVD. In contrast, research has shown that regularly reading to young children boosts language ability for both babies and toddlers.

“concentrate on proven ways to promote infant development such as talking, playing, singing, smiling, and reading to your baby.”

www.mayoclinic.org

Suction Cup Toothbrush

Zip Button Bear

www.target.com

● Daily Living Skills ● Important for all ● Visual Impairments

Previously Bubby’s Bubble now called Milk Snob

● Multi-use baby item ● Carseat cover, nursing cover, and can be used for a

sensory squeeze in the grocery store. ● Similar to the body sock ● Could be placed around legs or midsection ● Requires supervision in the cart and during use for any

child.

Milk Snob

Tarheel Reader

Read books

Write your own book or social story

Ratings- Everybody or caution

Accessibility features

tarheelreader.org

Tar Heel Gameplay

Tarheelgameplay.org

Center on the Social and Emotional Foundations for Early Learning (CSEFEL)

Practical Strategies

Solutions Toolkit

Super Friend Social Story

csefel.vanderbilt.edu/

Woofer Guitar Kit

DIY Includes one regular guitar and one switch adapted

Non-slip Shoes New Walkers

Safe walking shoes

• Slippers or soft shoes •Hot glue for skid-proof, grip bottoms

www.ctdinstitute.org

All-turn-it Spinner www.ablenetinc.com

Big Red Switch

Access to the Classroom DIY

Communication

SGD

Speech Generating Devices - electronic AAC systems to supplement or replace speech. As stated by ASHA (American Speech-Language-Hearing Association): ● the use of SGD’s in early childhood can improve natural

speech development ● AAC use with preschool children has been associated

with increased use of multisymbol utterances and development of grammar

● AAC use can lead to increased receptive vocab in young children.

www.asha.org Big Mack Single Message Switch

Stay Play & Talk

Instruction planning worksheet

Typically developing peers are taught three component skills: (a) stay near their partner

(b) engage with the partner

(c) talk with the partner by commenting on the play activities and responding to their partners communicative efforts.

vanderbilt.edu

Waterproof Communication Board

bath time, water play, or swimming!

•Waterproof, sealed kickboard, kneelpad •gallon zip bag, tape •pictures, photos, drawings

Pacer’s EZ AT Booklet

Tantrums & Language

*Most 2 year old tantrums occur not because of the terrible twos, but due to the fact that the child’s brain is further along than their language abilities.

● Create pictures of items 2 yr old may want ● Laminate and attached to childproof magnets ● Stick on refrigerator at child’s level or use a cookie sheet ● TEACH how to take picture to parent(s)/provider(s) ● The child learns to get what they want without

tantruming

www.behaviordoctor.org

Communication Placemats

DIY

5 Point Feeling Scale Created by Kari Dunn-Buron a Minnesota teacher

www.5pointscale.com

Fidgets

DIY Cut out soft fleece fabric squares

Tangle

Water wiggle snake toys

Liquid motion toys

DIY

Red & Green Choices

Positive Behavioral Strategy

Created for Autism can be used with any child

Free printables

www.redandgreenchoices.com

LED Color Changing Glow Balls

● CVI ● Turn taking ● Circle Time ● Colors ● Sizes ● Motor Skills ● Joint Attention

Enabling Devices

Tiggy

Letters

Numbers

Shapes

Manipulative magnets for ipads

www.tiggly.com

Voice Typing

Free accessibility feature on Google Docs

Click Tools

Voice Typing

Ideas for Preschool writing:

Wish lists, letters, journal entries, retelling stories, and more!

Voice Typing

Matt & Molly

www.superduperinc.com

Students learn the right and wrong ways to act at school, at home, with relatives, with other children, and in the community.

IFTT- If This Then That

Applets for 500 + services

Circle manages content and time online

If it is sunny outside, then pause the internet.

(on children’s devices/TV)

https://ifttt.com

Learn the Signs Free App

Center for Disease Control & Prevention

Google Play Link

IOS App

Track your child’s development using checklists

Tips to support development

Designed for ages 2 months to 5 years old

Page Fluffers and Page Turners

Let’s Participate Link

letsparticipate.org

Kits to Try

Homemade Abacus

Questions, comments, or

ideas to share.

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Thank you! ellie.hamilton@gpaea.org

References

Aacintervention.com http://afirm.fpg.unc.edu/ www.aap.org www.asha.org www.behaviordoctor.org Carolgraysocialstories.com csefel.vanderbilt.edu/https://vkc.mc.vanderbilt.edu/ebip/stay-play-talk- procedures/ www.ctdinstitute.org www.dec-sped.org/ http://donjohnston.com/portfolio-item/decoste-writing-protocol-2/ Gold.teachingstrategies.com Ectacenter.org www.educateiowa.gov Enablingdevices.com http://headstartinclusion.org/teacher-tools#visual www.joyzabala.com www.letsparticipate.org www.mayoclinic.org www.nationalautismresources.com www.ocali.org www.pacer.org http://practicalaac.org www.5pointscale.com www.redandgreenchoices.com https://sites.ed.gov/idea/ Tarheelreader.org www.tiggly.com www.wati.org www.zerotothree.org