Teaching · Related Services

Room 104 to the gym
in four minutes.

A walker that works in the therapy room has to work in a crowded hallway, through a heavy door and up the gym ramp before the bell. Time each real route, note the help and the barriers, and see where the school day and the building need to change.

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Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Or get it in the Related Services toolkit, $99 for 96 items.

Your trials

The worked example is made up: a posterior walker trial where the gym route takes 5.5 minutes against a 4-minute passing time, and the cafeteria door is too heavy. Saved on this device only; students are recorded by code.

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What you get

Teaching · Related Services$12 · included with Classroom and Whole-school licenses

What you finish with
A record per walker trial: student code, walker and settings, start date and passing time; every route with distance, time, assistance and barriers; six building checks against the ADA standards. Works out walking speed per route in metres a second and minutes per route; flags routes longer than passing time, routes needing hands-on help and each barrier, for the team’s plan.
Who it is for
School physical therapists and occupational therapists, PT assistants, and the IEP and 504 teams planning mobility at school.
Format
Browser organizer with a saved record per trial. Prints one trial for the team meeting, every trial in a table or a blank route sheet; downloads a spreadsheet (.csv); exports and imports a file.
Access
$12 one-time, yours on every device you sign in on; the tool opens once you are signed in with it. Included with Caveat Classroom and Whole-school licenses. Also in the Related Services toolkit ($99) and the Teaching Suite pass ($199), and 1 more bundle. Everything you type stays in this browser; nothing is sent to Caveat.
Where it lives
The Related Services space in Caveat Teaching.
Support
Questions about access, an order or a correction: team@caveatacademic.com.

How to use it

  1. Set and record the walker settings before timing.
  2. Time each route on a normal school day, at the student’s pace.
  3. Note the help given and every barrier.
  4. Check doors, thresholds, ramps and aisles on the routes.
  5. Bring the printout to the team: schedule, route and building changes.

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Numbers the building should meet

The ADA numbers a walker route depends on32 in clear1 in 12Door clear width32 inClassroom aisle36 inRamp slope1 in 12Threshold height½ inInterior door force5 lbADA numbers for a walker routeDoor clear width32 inClassroom aisle36 inRamp slope1 in 12Threshold height½ inInterior door force5 lb
From the 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design. A walker’s own width, plus room for hands, is what has to fit.

Speed in context

Walking speed in metres a second is a common clinical measure and easy to compare across trials. What matters at school is whether the student gets where they need to be, safely and without missing class, so the page compares every route with passing time.

When the building is the barrier

Schools must make programs accessible under Section 504 and the ADA. A heavy door, a missing ramp rail or a blocked aisle is a building issue for the school to fix, not something the student has to work around.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Justice. 2010 ADA Standards for Accessible Design: 404 doors, 403 walking surfaces, 405 ramps (ada.gov).
  2. American Physical Therapy Association. Physical therapy in schools and gait speed as a clinical measure (apta.org).
  3. Fritz, S., and Lusardi, M. (2009). White paper: walking speed, the sixth vital sign. Journal of Geriatric Physical Therapy, 32(2), 2–5.
  4. U.S. Department of Education, Office for Civil Rights. Section 504 and program accessibility (ed.gov/ocr).

The worked example is made up. This page records a trial; it does not prescribe a device or replace the therapist’s clinical judgment. Nothing you type is sent to Caveat. Support: team@caveatacademic.com.