Kindersite Survey and Special Needs

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Recently the Kindersite carried out a initial survey of users of the

website to start to understand how and who uses the Kindersite.

One of questions we asked users, is if they used the Kindersite in

special needs situations and about 10% responded positively. A listing

of the Special Needs areas is shown on the survey.

What surprised us most was the wide range of special needs that are

using the Kindersite and also that Psychologists and Speech Therapists

are using the Kindersite for assessment purposes. In the narrative

area of the responses a number of special needs parents, educators and

specialists have made some limited comments as well.

The full results of the survey are available in PDF format from the

Home page of the Kindersite and you are welcome to examine the

results.

The survey must be placed in context, of course, the results do not

mean that Special Needs parents and educators are saying that there is

any theraputic value but only that they use the Kindersite as a

resource with their special needs students and children. To understand

this issue from a theraputic basis would take a much deeper and more

prolonged study, anybody interested?.

I hope this is of interest.

phson, Executive Director

Kindersite Project

http://www.kindersite.org

Where children play and teachers learn