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What is Inclusion and Why is it Important in the Classroom?

Kerry, Merrily, and Wendy Mellin of EazyHold

All learning environments should be accessible and supportive of every single child. The concept of inclusion means that children with disabilities have the right to learn in typical classrooms, using the same curriculum, toys, and implements as their peers. The goal is to adapt existing classroom materials so that they can be easily made accessible for all students. It’s important for special ed teachers to provide technologies for schools that are accessible and supportive of all of the students in the school, right from the start.

Specific ways to can help your children to adapt and thrive.

Children with disabilities are children first. Like all kids, they need the opportunity to make choices and do for themselves within the limit of their abilities. This means that eating, drinking, and grooming may take a little more time for some, but doing these daily living activities by themselves helps children build self-confidence and increases independence.

The future success of infants and toddlers with disabilities depends on the development of life skills; to self-soothe, self-feed, play with toys, go to school and participate in art and sports. All important markers and milestones in a child's life.

How can parents significantly help their children with disabilities to develop their skills and prepare them to do more, achieve more, and fully participate in all activities?

• Choose inclusive aids that are inviting, colorful and ergonomically designed to enhance the toy or tool without visually appearing to be a medical device.

• Use aids that adapt easily to wet environments, which will encourage good personal hygiene habits, and allow for outdoor activities including water play.

• Consider low tech assistive technology over expensive 3-D or robotic arms/hands which can be cumbersome, visually intrusive, and hard to access.

• Provide tools that multi-task; to aid grasping, holding, pushing or lifting for gross and fine motor disabilities.

• Incorporate objects that are multi-sensory; make sounds, are stimulating, and have a visual interest that is age-appropriate.

On the Playground, Movement Through Play Drives Learning in Children

EazyHold products provide the pathway for exploration and learning. Children grow and learn through play. Assistive Technology devices that adapt toys and sports equipment serve a vital role in providing successful play opportunities for children with disabilities.

The EazyHold universal cuff allows children to control and actively explore their worlds by reducing and/or removing barriers to play and leveling the playing field for children with special needs.

Use our soft silicone cuffs on baseball bats, cheerleader pom-poms, golf clubs, hockey sticks, bicycle pedals/handles, squash and tennis racquets, archery, rowing, cricket, badminton, table tennis and more. 

Assistive technology like EazyHold can help children with disabilities develop these important skills within meaningful life activities.

Giving your child the ability to grasp an object, focus their energy on the task at hand, and for the length of time, it takes to use it.

EazyHold Infant to Child Pack comes in pretty colors to make them fun and inclusive, and its design fits even the tiniest of hands, unlike any other pediatric universal cuff before!

• Color defined for easy recognition

• Assist several students at once

• Will not harbor or spread bacteria or germs

• Adapts existing classroom objects

• Puts the tool in students' hands against the skin.

• Can be used and reused

• Puts tool in hand, against the skin

• Disinfect with hospital-grade wipes

• Dishwashable and dryable

• Unique color for each size makes it easy to find what you need

• 8 sizes for infant to adult

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