Motor skills play an essential part in child development. These skills consist of gross and fine motor skills, both of which begin developing early in life. Gross motor skills involve using several body muscles to do things like sitting, crawling, walking, running, and jumping. Fine motor skills require smaller muscle movements of the hands to do “finer” activities like […]
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Strengthen your child’s language concepts with the QuestionIt iPad app
If you read our blog regularly, you are likely aware that mobile devices such as smartphones and tablets play a big role in the field of assistive technology. The potential of apps on these devices is virtually limitless. With certain apps and home automation devices already available, users have the ability to unlock their home, adjust their […]
10 Apps for Children with Learning and Attention Issues
Technology has opened up a whole new world for individuals with a myriad of learning disabilities. It’s made practicing academic skills more exciting with educational games, in addition to making the classroom more accessible overall with apps like SnapType. Several educational professionals have noted the advantages of these applications and more, and have set out to […]
Virtual Speech Center, 3 Speech and Language Apps
There are many resources available to help individuals with communication disorders, but I recently stumbled across one that offers countless language apps. Virtual Speech Center Inc. was founded in 2011 by speech and language pathologist Beata Klarowska, and her husband Bartosz, a software engineer. It takes speech and language therapy apps to the next level by […]
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From Workplace to Showcase
Writer: Tiffany Whisner, Coles Marketing It started out as a working lab, showing off assistive technology categorized by disability — for those individuals who are blind or vision-impaired; Deaf or Hard of Hearing; have mobility challenges; or learning or cognition challenges. Now, as the reality of the AT world is changing, the INDATA Project at […]
Sensory Issues in Autism
The soothing sensation of fine sand between our toes. The breath of a warm, gentle breeze on our faces. The comfort of a loved one’s embrace. For the majority, these examples of touch take us to an unparalleled state of bliss. But for children with sensory issues, such as those on the autism spectrum, these […]