Details Play Experience by AT

Summary

Play Experience by Assistive Technology for play

Devices, services & contexts for play with children with disabilities

Name of Play Experience by AT

HelpKidzLaern

Type of project

Intervention
Finished research project
Ongoing research project

Summary

(~150 words: target group, aims, kind of activities, Play Experience by AT (devices, services and contexts) used, play experiences and results)

80+ Games & Activities that can be accessed using mouse and keyboard, switch(es), touch screen, interactive classroom displays, joy stick, roller ball and eye gaze.

Ideal for children with a wide range of special educational needs and learning difficulties at a pre-literacy or early literacy level. It is also suitable for early years users.

We use HelpKidzLearn a lot at Beit Issie Shapiro, and the kids LOVE those game, and we can really see the joy on the faces because they can play by them self!

Type of Play

Type of play in this play system

LUDI Classification of types of play

Cognitive Dimension

Practice
Symbolic
Constructive
Rule play (including videogames)

Social Dimension

Solitary
Parallel
Associative
Cooperative

References

References to the intervention or research project

Website

http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/

Keywords

Example: Robots, Virtual Games, Mobile Phone, Public Playground, Adapted Toys

iPad, Apps, Eye Gaze, Switches

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Using the iPad to Provide Play Opportunities in Children with Disabilities