Telling Time

[Chris and Vicky Opipari]

To Parents of kids who us the VMax,

 

I was hoping to get ideas on how your kids' pages are set up to tell time.  My daughter mainly uses a 40-button page which has been functional when she first started learning how to tell time.  We were able to program the hours and increments of 5.  Now that she is learning to tell time up to the minutes, we've run out of room to program buttons for each hour and each minute.  We can't use a different layout with more buttons as she needs them to be a certain size so she can see them.

 

I'm wondering if there is a more efficient/functional way to give her a way to tell us what time it is besides programming a button for each minute of the day?

 

Thanks,

 

Vicky

[Mcda...@aol.com]

        Vicky,  Our son didn't use a vmax but is there a page with numbers on it?  I recall I was programing his device for his school theme and it was tropical so I was adding icon's to the activity row but our private SLP said if something is already on the device don't reinvent it.  It was a pineapple.  It was already found under foods,fruits.  Not sure this will help or not.  Mary-Clare

[greatful]

We don't use VMax although use SDP... does the VMax software allow for
use of variables in button actions and does your child comprehend
their use? Is there at least one or two blank buttons currently on the
telling time board that could be set as variable buttons?

Using a variable, if your child selected the variable then the '5'
button a pop up could be created to provide 6-9, similarly, variable +
'10' could offer an 11-14 pop-up, etc... A second variable button
would just be used as a cancel so that if the first variable and the
appropriate number from the pop-up was selected the cancel variable
would ensure the the next button selected was not under the initial
variable control.

If only one button were available to create the initial variable each
button on the board could be assigned a variable to cancel the initial
variable control after selection.

Does that make any sense?