Special Education RoboKind Grant Application 2024-2025

Special Education RoboKind Grant Application 2024-2025
Soecial Education Robokind Grant Application 2024-2025

Through legislation, the Indiana Department of Education (IDOE) has been allocated $1,350,000 for fiscal years 2024 and 2025 to provide grants to school corporations and charter schools to purchase robotic technology and professional development endorsed by the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) to improve the social and behavioral skills for students with autism. CASE currently endorses RoboKind for these skills.

RoboKind utilizes the Robots4Autism program which is a three year research-based, clinically-tested curriculum that focuses on social skills: those skills that, when deficit, often make it difficult for a student with ASD, autism spectrum disorder, to fully participate in the general education environment successfully. Using facial-expressive robots, the program is a social and emotional learning (SEL) curriculum based on a multidisciplinary developmental behavioral approach, leveraging speech language pathology, occupational therapy, applied behavioral analysis (ABA) principles, and developed with the assistance of subject-matter experts, professionals, and educators. The curriculum is designed around function level rather than age and has been implemented successfully in other states for students between 4 and 21 years of age. The program includes software management to collect and track data (including student engagement) and mastery of social skills lessons.

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Required Grant Contact Information
Corporation Name*
Special Education Director Name*

First NameLast Name
Special Education Director Role / Title*
Special Education Director E-mail*
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Special Education Director Phone*
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Financial / Business Officer Name*

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Superintendent Name*

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IT Director Name*

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Number of Schools Participating

Grant Data Requirements
Student Requirements
- Students must have enough allotted minutes dedicated to specialized services in the areas of social communication, social-emotional, or social skills indicated in their IEP. The program requires two to three 20-minute sessions weekly.
- Each participating student must have goals written in the IEP for social skills instruction that fit within the Robots4Autism curriculum lesson plans.
- Students identified as qualifying via goals indicated in the IEP must be assessed for physical skills to manage the tablet in order to participate in the program. RoboKind provides a prerequisite document to guide this assessment.
Pre-requisites are further outlined in this helpful document from the robots4autism team.

Provide STNs for 10-12 qualifying students according to the above requirements.*

	STN	Primary Disability is Autism?	Communications Goal?
Student 1
Student 2
Student 3
Student 4
Student 5
Student 6
Student 7
Student 8
Student 9
Student 10
Student 11
Student 12

Staff Requirements

The program requires two staff members, their role, and a summary of how their schedule supports 1:1 service provision for the students identified above. Only students included here shall be working with the robot.

Staff Information*

	First Name	Last Name	Title	Summary of Schedule
Staff Member #1
Staff Member #2

Sutainability Plan
Please identify how the use of the robot (including updates and ongoing training) will be sustained past the grant cycle.*
Budget

A budget submission is required. Click the link to make a copy of the budget application. Fill it out both tabs in full and submit it with your application below as a .xlsx file.

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Budget Submission*

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By signing below, the applicant certifies that the information provided is accurate, and the participating district or school meets the following requirements for participation:
- A safe, secure location to store the robot.
- At least two teachers who are committed to attending all required PD.
- A commitment to communicating with and attending meetings with RoboKind as needed.
- Two dedicated tablets (iOS) to implement the curriculum.
- Wi-Fi to support the curriculum.
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Special Education RoboKind Grant Application 2024-2025

Required Grant Contact Information

Grant Data Requirements