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Through exploration and play, infants, toddlers, and young children interact with their environment and fellow peers and, in doing so, take in a vast amount of information about the world around them.
Go Baby Go! offers children with significant mobility impairment a means of mobility through play to explore their world. Mobility is important to peer interaction, cognitive development and in motor skill development. Play is the most important occupation of children, as children learn through play!
Go Baby Go! offers children with significant mobility impairment a means of mobility through play to explore their world. Mobility is important to peer interaction, cognitive development and in motor skill development. Play is the most important occupation of children, as children learn through play!
Professor Cole Galloway founded Go Baby Go in 2012 as part of a research project at the University of Delaware; since then, Go Baby Go has expanded nationally and internationally. The modified power-wheels give children with mobility disabilities a chance to be a kid and play and socialize with their peers more easily. Independent mobility has so many cognitive, social, motor, language and other developmental benefits in young children, as it gives them active control over exploring their environment. There are no mobility toys like this out on the market. Not many young children qualify for other powered mobility devices such as power wheelchairs, and they are extremely expensive. The modified power wheels provide them independence much earlier and at a much lower cost.
Go Baby Go! at Saint Francis University has been able to work with six children and their families during the Spring 2024 semester. We look forward to continuing this learning experience for our students and community members each year!