Wednesday, October 7, 2020
Tonya Sears, education/disabilities manager for NIC Head Start, left; NIC Head Start Director Beth Ann Fuller, center; and Jennifer Cork, president of the Panhandle Autism Society, pose for a photo with one of nine communication boards the society donated to NIC Head Start.
Children playing on NIC Head Start playgrounds throughout North Idaho can now communicate more easily with one another and their teachers thanks to the Panhandle Autism Society. The society donated nine large, standing communication boards – one for each of the NIC Head Start locations.
The boards, with pictures and symbols, are designed to help make playground time more inclusive for non-verbal children. The kiddos can point to an image on the board to communicate things like which piece of playground equipment they’d like to play on, whose turn it is to go next in a game, or whether they are hot, happy or sad.