Hi Jo -
Welcome to our new community site and thank you for posting!
We definitely have the ambition to develop these systems to better support young people of all ages.
We are starting with the early years as it is where we already have most data and detailed teaching advice (from our See and Learn resources).
However, they can be extended to cover any age group and any area of development.
To some extent, personalised advice becomes more challenging as children with Down syndrome get older as the range of skills achieved varies more widely.
This is somewhat mitigated by advice being based on developmental criteria rather than age. However, we cannot entirely ignore age – you would likely select different target vocabulary for a 13-year-old than a 4-year-old with similar sized vocabularies.
We also have less data on rates of progress for teenagers to get started with, so we will likely have to evolve the advice more as we begin to collect data for this age group.
Once we get the See and Learn Progress Tracker launched and start to gather feedback we will be quickly moving forward with the broader record-keeping and advice systems.
The main constraint is, of course, time. We are a small team and can only do so much at once. We cannot (and should not) do it all and are hoping to partner with others to work with us on evolving these systems.
