Welcome to the Tech for Tikes, created by the Johns Hopkins Center for Technology in Education (CTE). More than ever, technology to promote learning and development is available everywhere. From tablets, to PCs, to toys, technology that blends education and entertainment now is a staple of the childhood experience. Here's a good source for determining what's appropriate and useful when families ask about apps.
The Communication Matrix is an assessment tool designed to pinpoint exactly how an individual is communicating and to provide a framework for determining logical communication goals. It was designed to use to document the expressive communication skills of children who have severe or multiple disabilities.
Baby laptops, baby cellphones, talking farms - these are the whirring, whiz-bang toys of the moment, many of them marketed as tools to encourage babies' language skills. But in the midst of the holiday season, a new study raises questions about whether such electronic playthings make it less likely that babies will engage in the verbal give-and-take with their parents that is so crucial to cognitive development.
The goal of the Center for Early Literacy Learning (CELL) is to promote the adoption and sustained use of evidence-based early literacy learning practices. This site has resources for early childhood intervention practitioners, parents, and other caregivers of children, birth to five years of age, with identified disabilities, developmental delays, and those at-risk for poor outcomes