Visual CAP

For a co-worked Case we decided to make a visual CAP. The mother cannot read or write. She liked the images. It helped her understand focuses and Goals. She wanted to take it home for the wall

CAT Roadshow- Assisted Technology

CAT Roadshow

Wednesday 8th November 2017

SlideShow Presentation

Maree Boyd - facilitator

cat.help@education.govt.nz

Role is also to provide advice and guidance about types of AT that can support students and specific cases - just email!

E koekoe te tui, e ketekete te kaka, e kuku te kereru - the tui chatters, the kaka cackles and the kereru coos

We all bring our unique strengths

Janine - assistive tech co-ordinator for our region.

Is also part of the moderation team, meet monthly to look at applications.  

Also provides information and advice around AT practice, can help with applications.

Assistive Technology applications do not require a formal diagnosis - except for Auditory Processing Disorder.

Assistive tech:  specialised equipment and technology that students with additional learning needs use in class to increase or improve their abiliity to participate and learn.

• Dyslexia, dyspraxia, physical disabilities, cognitive etc.
• Not the resource of the I-Pad, but the specialised equipment, and software

• Provide specialised furniture chairs, tables, slopeboards etc
• Hearing equipment - transmitters and receivers
• Vision equipment
• Literacy and learning - i-pads,  laptops, switches and software.

Any students under Ministry contacts can access AT - SEG funding as well.  

Trial pol of devices, and assistive apps and software, furniture etc.

See janine for looking at this

Refer to HANDOUT for information about APPLYING FOR ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY

• Also a handout with due dates for moderation
• Applications are moderated each month
• Lots of examples on the MOE website of students using AT to support their learning in school

Find the diagram of the Overlap of syndromes - etc.

Supporting Neurodiversity - accepting and supporting dyspraxia etc as strengths to work with.

No pathelogical explanation for dyslexia, etc, so accepted as part of the normal development of the human brain.

(there are great online articles about Neurodiversity - look into this)

Diagram:  the genius within

Used to explore the strengths based approach to diverse thinkers.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL)

A way of approaching learning, to build inclusiveness and to support the strengths and abilities of diverse learners.

Movie Clip in the slideshow (Drive - Professional Learning)

(take notes from this)

Inclusive education website - links in handout, recently updated.

http://inclusive.tki.org.guides.universal-design-for-learning

Universal Design for Learning - theory supports Student agency pedagogy.

SETT

• Student

• Environment
• Tasks
• Tools

Student - barriers, strengths, what’s working well, what’s worked in the past, what helps to engage, barriers to independence?

Environment - barriers, not just the physical, emotional environment, approaches of the teacher, etc.

Tasks - what’s important for student “right now” what do they need instantly in order to move forward

Tools - what attributes does a potential tool need to have to support the student - go for the needs, this helps to narrow down an appropriate tool.

Mid-Low Tech Solutions:

Coloured transparencies, visual schedules, etc.

High Tech - heaps of options available

Thinking Inside the Black Box:

A thinking technique

Black box is a vault, inside is the perfect solution.  

To unlock the black box and find the ‘perfect tool’ need to be able to unpack all of the options - needs, abilities, method of access, durability, touch screen, etc.

Activity:

Red - the situation right now

Green - options to try

Student	Environment (currently existing)	Task	Tools
Generates good ideas Aware of his own needs Positive attitude Processing - thinking time, Physically handwriting is difficult Confusion with letters and words - not consistent Anxiety - gets embarrassed	Doesn’t like needing to ask The board - barrier Teacher Expectation - self manage and ask, but this embarrasses him	Remember instructions Produce work faster Produce work neater	Bullet pointing, visually capturing the instructions Less instructions, Trial read-writer, speech to text options. Graphic organiser (hamburger and planning sheets) short , sharp and specific instructions Give one instruction at a time Think, pair, share techniques Interactive, kinesthetic building of ideas etc.. Apps to build working memory egMemory king Monster  hunt Monster hunter

Dyslexia:

Reading Technology:  c-pen, scan text and reads this aloud.

E-books etc.

Writing Tools:

Grips

Speech to text

Accessibility Tools: - I-pad

Go to settings - accessibility - speak selection - and then can go to voices.

APPS:  See Slideshow - Attached.

Text to speech I-Pad

ClaroSpeak Plus -

Mac Windows

ReadSpeaker

NaturalReader

Talk button

Chrome

Read / Write for Chrome extension

Clicker Docs, WordQ,  Co-Writer

Speech Recognition:

Tools - voice typing in Google docs

I-Pad - settings - general - keyboard - dictation

Phonics genius - good for older kids, good for ‘speld’ type learners.

I Speak Words - word wizard - good for juniors

Hairy Phonics -

Writing Wizard - can practice words as well, create a wordlist - with current contexts etc.  Could input Te Reo Maori into this app as well.

Bitsboard - free, has a paid option

Contains boards with bits on them, is pretty much a flash card app.  Allows you to practice knowledge.  Has some pre-made boards, emotions etc…

Can then play games with them - true / false , spelling bee,

Book making - Kedago Plus, download, need to install, settings, keyboard, add new keyboard.  Use the globe, which will give you keyboard options.

Install this to use as an alternative keyboard, it looks really goodl

Book Creator - looks really awesome, use for social stories etc…

Predictive text:

Co-writer

Word Q UK for Chrome

Clicker docs

Readandwrite

Claro for chrome

• Have free trial periods

Popplet:

Mind mapping tool

Write about this NZ

Writing prompts with NZ features

Assistive Technology - additions that the student cannot really function without - imagine losing your glasses - cannot drive, cannot read, etc…

Please reember it should not be removed as a behaviour modification tool.

Developmental Dyspraxia:   on the slide

Slide with signs of Dyspraxia

Scheduling APPS:

Time Timer application

Visual Schedule Planner

Choiceworks - quite popular app

First then Visual Schedule

Popplet - another good APP for organisational support.

Furniture - needs OT or Physio to be involved in the application.

Remember to consider the ‘low tech’ options as well, sometimes these are much more simpler and more efficient as well.

Guided Access - open app, click home button 3 times, get guided access options to use.  Can set time limits, some buttons, greys out some areas, insists on app or game to b followed properly.  Gives access for a period of time only - very effectie

APPS for Autism:

Use i-pad as a recorder, then use video in book creator, and popplet, etc, to create social stories.

Using stories to learn is very powerful.

Email maree for the App Wheels - dyslexia, autism, etc…

Social Stories - our stories, storymaker, emotion select, between the lines,

Be sure to have adult / teacher / teacher aide present during the use of the APPS.

Sensory - sensory breaks, and to Regulate Energy and Emotions

Need to remember to balance the no tech time with the tech time as well, to help students keep a sense of regulation.

EPIC - awesome story library, includes options for the national geographic, etc.

Has read to me options - books with text that will read out loud, audio only books and text only books as options.

Show Me - interactive white board, free

Like explain everything

Records as you write and solve the problem, students can use it to record their working, with their verbal explanations.  Needs a login, look into this and see if it needs costings.

Check out Maths Learning Centre - has number lines, shapes, manipulates etc which are free.

Maths tapper - abacus and counting beads.

Ratio Potion - ratios etc for older students.

Phonics Genius- better for older students

Audio techna mic with built in headphones

Ipad

Settings- General- Keyboard                       go to notes

General-accessibility

Phonics and handwriting

Hairy phonics

I speak word

Writing wizard

Bitsboard-app

Settings  catalogue

Book creator

Key to go plus

Myscript stylus

Myscript stack

Myscript memo

Predictive text

Co writer

Word Q Uk for chrome

Clicker doc

Claro for chrome

Cost involved but all have trial period

Versatile apps

Write about this NZ

Book creator

Popplet

Fonts for dyslexia

Dys;exie

Noteworthy

Dyspraxia

Tripping over, problems with memory, co ordination

Turning captioning on

Accessibility features

Furniture

Furniture and equipment for students with additional needs

Autism spectrum

Focused on one particular thing and don’t want to move away

Parental control

Settings general restrictions

Apps for Autism

Emotions

• Scheduling
• Video modelling or Social stories

Apps wheel

Sensory brea

Balance no tech time with the text time

Epic

Numeracy

Show me whiteboard can record

Math tapper

Mana Enhancement

Mana Enhancement

A culturally centered Model of your own creation                               

Te Ara Whakamana- The enhancement model uses  narratives ,colour  and metaphor to explore the uniqueness of the individual and their world

The Maori creation story

Papatunuku ( earth mother)   Ranginui ( Sky father)  created the Atua ( gods )

A NZ Model if you want to adapt it you can

MANA

Ma - White/purity         pure about ourselves

Ana -care tinana

Seed /can be tainted if you need mana to be the best you can be

Identity

Whakapapa

It is the feeling of the person/anything is possible Wairua

Pride, power,respect

At the centre is the uniqueness of the individual and their Mana

Its about Mana

Mana Atua- Sprirtual

Mana tangata-skills and talents,thoughts and deeds

Mana Tane

Mana wahine

Mana Tamariki/Mokopuna

Mana whenua- our relationship with the land

Tangata Whenua-indigeneity

Not here to replace. This will enhance your practice

3 other tenets

Whakamana Mana enhancement            Strengths based          Ako -Co Construction

Ako teacher being the learner the learner being the teacher

Model will grow    both grow

Looking for strengths of charecter and culture

School wide/whanau

A culturally centred story

What fits the person is important

Using an indigenous framework for a narrative enquiry

About what  nurtures, calms, sustains and strengthens

Mana is enhanced

Brilliant actions and exceptional talent will be noticed and enhance ones Mana

Actions that cause harm, will also be noticed and will have a negative effect on Mana- It will diminish

Setting the environment with a karakia

In their voice how they said it student voice we don’t challenge we except in this moment

Model of inquiry

As a class what does Mana mean to us as a class

What is hidden visible

Stories

Korero around Mataora

Niwareka

Maui

Maui the adventurer- He wanted to see how far he could go and what he could achieve

Maui the trickster- He could be a bit naughty and hoha

Maui who had a bad start- He was left for dead as a baby

Maui the shape shifter- Sometimes he had to get himself out of trouble

Maui who created positive change for everyone