Education and Learning Aids

Website: dttrainer.com

This article was written as a part of the Exceptional Parent 2007 Guide to Assistive Technology. It describes the creation of a type of software designed to help children with cognitive impairments become independent learners. The DTTrainer was developed by the father of a child with autism to help him comprehend concepts such as categorization, matching, reasoning, decision-making, problem-solving, memory skills, and word prediction. It is geared toward children at a developmental age of 2-9 years.

The goal of the software is for it to serve as a virtual one-to-one tutor for the child and can be adjusted to meet the child‘s unique needs and help him become an independent learner. Interested readers may follow links to obtain further information.