iPad Adaptations - Two Videos

The two videos below illustrate some of the work scholars are doing with Therese Willkomm in her class: Using iPads to Support Children with Disabilities, an online class during J-Term at the University of New Hampshire. This class is open to a diverse group of learners and teaches students to:

• Build knowledge and skills to maximize children’s learning potential using the iPad

• Learn how to Integrate and modify the iPad for young children with disability

• Learn creative uses of built in features on the iPad

• Select quality apps by features mapping

• Employ Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

Erin s a first year EC-SEAT scholar who also works as a full-time paraprofessional, and these are her videos.

The first adaptation is a stylus using a pen, a cotton ball, tin foil, and duct tape. I placed the cotton ball over the tip of the pen and wrapped tin foil around both the pen and the cotton ball. This secured the cotton ball to the pen but to more tightly secure it I duct tapped the tin foil to the pen. Since the foil is part of the conduction I made sure to wrap the tape at the very end of the foil (the end without the cotton ball).

 
Ipad Adaptation 1 - Erin Phillips from ec seat on Vimeo.

The second is a glove that will allow children to work on using their point finger while using the iPad. This glove is made out of a shipping envelope which is lined with bubble wrap. To make this I folded the envelope into thirds and secured it with the seal of the envelope. I then cut a hole at the bottom so one could put their hand into the glove. I folded the uncut side and tapped it so it would be more glove shaped and then I cut a hole into the folded end for the point finger.

iPad adaptation 2 - Erin Phillips from ec seat on Vimeo.