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
Saturday, 25 November 2017
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
Maree Boyd - facilitator
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.
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.
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
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