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Creating a Technology-Rich Learning Environment for Infants and Toddlers with Disabilities
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Judge, Sharon; Floyd, Kim; Wood-Fields, Colleen – Infants and Young Children, 2010
Assistive technology offers infants and toddlers with disabilities a set of tools to assist in achieving developmental goals while interacting with objects, materials, adults, and other children in their environment. This article focuses on assistive technology devices that can promote young children's participation in activities and routines in…
Descriptors: Play, Early Intervention, Augmentative and Alternative Communication, Toddlers
Using a Digital Frame and Pictorial Information to Enhance the SafeCare[R] Parent-Infant Interactions Module with a Mother with Intellectual Disabilities: Results of a Pilot Study
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Gaskin, Emily H.; Lutzker, John R.; Crimmins, Daniel B.; Robinson, Lara – Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 2012
Parents with intellectual disabilities (ID) are disproportionately represented in the child welfare system. Parents with ID can be better served by developing curricula that support various modes of learning. Technology offers a potentially effective tool because it is visual, interactive, and self-instructional. SafeCare[R] is an evidence-based…
Descriptors: Mothers, Mental Retardation, Child Welfare, Infants
Effects of Web-Based Support on Early Head Start Home Visitors' Use of Evidence-Based Intervention Decision Making and Growth in Children's Expressive Communication
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Buzhardt, Jay; Greenwood, Charles R.; Walker, Dale; Anderson, Rawni; Howard, Waylon; Carta, Judith J. – NHSA Dialog, 2011
We investigated Early Head Start home visitors' use of evidence-based practices and the efficacy of a web-based system to support these practices. Home visitors learned to use 3 evidence-based practices: (a) frequent assessment of children's early communication for screening and progress monitoring, (b) 2 home-based language-promoting…
Descriptors: Evidence, Early Intervention, Disadvantaged Youth, Home Visits
A Review of Evidence on Practices for Teaching Young Children to Use Assistive Technology Devices
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Campbell, Philippa H.; Milbourne, Suzanne; Dugan, Lauren M.; Wilcox, M. Jeanne – Topics in Early Childhood Special Education, 2006
Published articles about assistive technology (AT) from 1980 through 2004 were reviewed to identify those that focused on infants and young children. A total of 104 articles about AT with infants and toddlers were identified, and of these, 23 reported practices for teaching switch activation (12), computer use (6), power mobility skills (4), or…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Multiple Disabilities, Infants, Educational Technology
Using Technology in Inclusive Classrooms. Technology in the Classroom.
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Bergen, Doris – Childhood Education, 2002
Discusses advantages of technology such as handheld computers in classrooms that include children with disabilities. Asks how technological devices affect very young children with or without disabilities and reviews criteria for selecting software, Web sites, and resources for teaching with technology. (DLH)
Descriptors: Computer Software Selection, Computer Uses in Education, Disabilities, Educational Resources
Assistive Technology for Young Children.
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Kelker, Katharin A. – Early Childhood Bulletin, 1993
This issue of the "Early Childhood Bulletin" explains the developmental and learning implications of play for very young children and outlines ways in which assistive technology can open doors to play for children with disabilities. The importance of incorporating assistive technology into a child's early intervention program through the…
Descriptors: Appropriate Technology, Assistive Devices (for Disabled), Child Development, Computer Assisted Instruction
Focus on Infants & Toddlers (Ages 0-3): A Quarterly Newsletter for the Education Community, 2000-2001.
Barry, Virginia M., Ed.; Cantor, Patricia, Ed. – Focus on Infants and Toddlers, 2001
These four quarterly newsletter issues address various topics of interest to child caregivers. Each issue includes articles on a specific theme, along with regular news or a column by an AECI Executive Board vice president. The Fall 2000 issue focuses on the special features and unique concerns of employer-sponsored child care, with one article…
Descriptors: Child Caregivers, Child Development, Child Rearing, Classroom Techniques