It guides parents and professionals toward practical strategies for integrating computers, communication aids, and other devices to help children with disabilities at school and at home. The appendices include reproducible worksheets for lesson plans involving technology, a list of technology vendors, and resources related to assistive technology and children with disabilities. This video for parents, early childhood professionals, and others, shows how assistive technology can benefit young children with disabilities. Various devices are demonstrated at homes and in preschool settings. KITEline KITEline is an electronic listserv designed to offer KITE graduates a method of communication with one another, to ask for ideas related to matching young children and appropriate technology, and to share strategies for integrating technology in the curriculum.
Participants write questions to the group and receive peer input.
It has been well-received since its launching. A popular children's book has been made into an activity using IntelliPics so that the children can retell the favorite story using the computer. The text and recording are in Hmong and will perhaps be created in other languages. Another book recounts traditional activities on an important holiday of the culture. Ink drawings will be made into an electronic coloring activity.