Backyards and Butterflies: Ways to Include Children with Disabilities in Outdoor Activities

Book Description
This colorful, profusely illustrated book shows parents and others who work with disabled children how to design and build simple, inexpensive assistive technology devices that open up the world of outdoor experiences for these children. The authors describe their book in this way: "This book was written by four mothers around a kitchen table. Besides being mothers, we are also a developmental psychologist, an occupational therapist, a special educator, and an illustrator. Most of the ideas in the book have been thought of, and made, by parents. Others have been made by us, for children we've worked with.... In each chapter we share ideas on making outdoor environments more accessible and safer for ALL children.... We are writing a how-to book for families. We do not exclude schools for therapeutic programs as audiences, but our goal is to make our children's home environments as accessible as their school environments. These are low-tech, inexpensive, homemade "assistive technology" ideas for use at home."


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