With all
suggestions carefully hand - picked by Julie M. Wood and Nicole Ponsford — authors of TechnoTeaching: Taking Practice to the Next Level in a Digital World and edtech consultants — the criteria
for selection included
age - appropriate choices that would be fun and engaging
for preschool - to middle
school -
age children.
With over six million American
school children diagnosed with a wide range of disabilities — according to the National Center
for Educational Statistics, an estimated 12 % of
children between the
ages of 3 and 21 have «special needs» — educators, as well as
child behavior specialists, have developed
suggestions for teaching and parenting them.