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Ebunny59
Feb 27, 2012, 8:49:02 PM2/27/12
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All it takes is one negative comment regarding using AAC, or one
teacher agreeing with Kendra that she doesn't need it, and there goes
a whole year of planning and hopeful wishes. Had the IEP one week,
everyone agreed to try to get Kendra to use proloquo2go, a little more
often. Maybe for the weekly cooking activity. The following week,
BAM, the special ed teacher tells her she understands her pretty much,
and she doesn't have to use the ipad to communicate. It isn't about
understanding her speech. It is about giving her access to speech,
when she is in stressful situations, and her intelligible speech fails
her. It is about someone other than her aide or myself being able to
tell everyone about what she is talking about. It is about being
independent. It just isn't going to happen, if EVERYONE isn't on
board. I feel like we may as well be starting all over again.
My newest project, is using Gail Van Tatenhove's color word board
(http://www.vantatenhove.com/files/ColorWordBoard.pdf) and creating
our own on a spreadsheet on Google documents. Then i will Import it
onto a google site for her. Using the newest version of Co:Writer, so
she can highlight a word, and have it say it for her. I don't expect
her to really be able to put together long sentences using it. Just
that 1 out of 10 words, we just can't verbally understand! anyone
else have any more suggestions?
Amy
teacher agreeing with Kendra that she doesn't need it, and there goes
a whole year of planning and hopeful wishes. Had the IEP one week,
everyone agreed to try to get Kendra to use proloquo2go, a little more
often. Maybe for the weekly cooking activity. The following week,
BAM, the special ed teacher tells her she understands her pretty much,
and she doesn't have to use the ipad to communicate. It isn't about
understanding her speech. It is about giving her access to speech,
when she is in stressful situations, and her intelligible speech fails
her. It is about someone other than her aide or myself being able to
tell everyone about what she is talking about. It is about being
independent. It just isn't going to happen, if EVERYONE isn't on
board. I feel like we may as well be starting all over again.
My newest project, is using Gail Van Tatenhove's color word board
(http://www.vantatenhove.com/files/ColorWordBoard.pdf) and creating
our own on a spreadsheet on Google documents. Then i will Import it
onto a google site for her. Using the newest version of Co:Writer, so
she can highlight a word, and have it say it for her. I don't expect
her to really be able to put together long sentences using it. Just
that 1 out of 10 words, we just can't verbally understand! anyone
else have any more suggestions?
Amy
Gull-Britt Orsén
Feb 28, 2012, 1:50:15 PM2/28/12
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Hi Amy,
so sad to hear about that. But you, on the contrary, are doing a tremendous work with your girl, don't ever forget that!
I am glad you reminded me about Gails wordboard. I will translate it and try to teach Sebastian how to use it.
Right now he is using my Galaxy pad doing a lot of puzzles. He loves one called Animal Shapes
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.teachersparadise.animalshapepuzzles
As soon as the picture is done he answers on his AAC what animal it is (translating into Swedish!). However, I had to add some animals to his AAC, like armadillo which we don't have hear in Sweden LOL.
Best regards, Gull-Britt
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