Handout 5.2: Examples of Assistive Technology Equipment Resource Type: Handout This handout is for learners to view examples of different types of assistive technology equipment such as self-help devices, toys and switches and augmentative communication. Resource File (PDF): CONNECT-Handout-5.2.pdf
Handout 5.1: Research Summary on Assistive Technology Interventions Resource Type: Handout This handout summarizes a research synthesis of studies on assistive technology. Resource File (PDF): CONNECT-Handout-5.1.pdf
Activity 5.9a: Consider experience-based knowledge Resource Type: Activity In this activity, learners listen to clips of phone interviews of family and professional leaders in early childhood, and identify important considerations about assistive technology interventions. Resource File (PDF): CONNECT-Activity-5-9a.pdf
Activity 5.8a: Consider the policy on assistive technology interventions Resource Type: Activity In this activity, learners read a policy advisory on the law concerning assistive technology interventions and then answer questions about these policies. Resource File (PDF): CONNECT-Activity-5-8a.pdf
Activity 5.7a: Describe use of assistive technology to help with access and participation Resource Type: Activity In this activity, learners view three videos and describe how the use of assistive technology in each video promotes the child’s access to and participating in an activity or routine. Resource File (PDF): CONNECT-Activity-5-7a.pdf
Activity 5.6a: Describe strategies to help children use assistive technology Resource Type: Activity In this activity, learners view two videos and describe what the adult does to show the child how to use assistive technology in each video. Resource File (PDF): CONNECT-Activity-5-6a.pdf
Activity 5.5a: Create a squishy book Resource Type: Activity In this activity, learners create their own adaptation that can be used with children with language or physical delays. Resource File (PDF): CONNECT-Activity-5-5a.pdf
Activity 5.4a: Identify appropriate assistive technology equipment Resource Type: Activity In this activity, learners read about three different children and evaluate what types of assistive technology equipment they each would benefit from most. Resource File (PDF): CONNECT-Activity-5-4a.pdf
Activity 5.3a: Apply the research to practice Resource Type: Activity Identify appropriate assistive technology equipment Resource File (PDF): CONNECT-Activity-5-3a.pdf
Video 5.11: Eating at Boston Market A therapist shows a mother how to use a communication board with her daughter to ask for what to eat at a restaurant (running time: 42 sec.). View TranscriptTherapist: And so before the meal starts or while the meal starts, you would say, “Tianna, this is chicken. Tianna…