Key Terms

adaptations: Specific accommodations, modifications, or supports to assist children compensate for functional limitations and challenges.

adapted paper: is specially modified paper (color, lines, sizes, narrow or wide lines). Adapted paper is used to support individuals with visual perceptual difficulties and those with fine motor problems.

alternative input device: computer peripherals such as switches, touch screens, joysticks, paddles, and adaptive keyboards which can be used in place of the regular keyboard, mouse, or joystick.

communication device: an aid, such as a touch window, to enhance a person's ability to communicate wants and needs.

developmentally appropriate - curriculum, activities, and decisions made based on knowledge about how children develop and learn; individual children's interests, strengths, learning styles, and needs; and social and culture frameworks.

Source: National Association for the Education of Young Children's Position Statement Developmentally appropriate practice in early childhood programs serving children from birth through age 8.
Adopted July 1996. http://www.naeyc.org/resources/position_statements/dap2.htm

Touch Screen: An input device that transfers an image created on a touch sensitive workspace to the computer's monitor. A software program and stylus accompany this flat, tracing pad type peripheral.

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