Many parents routinely find themselves having to manage a child in a wheelchair and a traditional grocery cart at the same time while trying to get shopping done.  At last, Caroline’s Cart  has arrived to a Central Valley California grocery store, a shopping cart designed for children with disabilities.  Hear a local mom, Carolina Alfaro’s determination to bring these much-needed assistive carts to our region and watch Madison Gustafson, a 10-year-old having fun shopping with her mom, conveniently. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_xUcTt272s&w=560&h=315]

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Often the missing link in a child’s educational progress could be an Assistive Technology (AT) tool that can help a student complete a math problem quicker, read a story better, use a computer with greater ease, or track text more accurately; increasing a child’s confidence, independence and motivation to learn. Often a child with multiple developmental delays is trying to overcome other existing challenges while trying to satisfy a task at hand.  This is especially true for a child who has multiple deficits such as physical, speech and language, gross motor, fine motor and cognitive delays. For example, take a.

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