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Presenter(s)
Don Kehoe
Adaptivation, Inc.
2225 W. 50th Street, Suite 100
Sioux Falls, SD 57105
Day Phone: 605-335-4445
Fax: 605-335-4446
Email: dkehoe@adaptivation.com
All to often reading is a passive experience for children who experience developmental disabilities. This is especially true for children who rely on technology to enhance their interactional skills. It is important that all children experience success in literacy activities such as reading, in order to facilitate their continued development and to enhance a positive self-image. Literacy can be taught to all students with disabilities.
So how do we take reading from a passive activity and turn it into a child directed activity. You will be surprised how quickly and easily this can be done even for a child who is only capable of single switch activation. Best of all, you will learn that you can often use the books, materials, and technology you already have.
This presentation will show over a dozen ways to take your favorite storybooks off the shelf and turn them into "talking books". The technology demonstrated will be simple, functional, and fun to use. Some of the techniques to be demonstrated include:
• Learn how to turn the text or picture of any book into a interactive, talking page
• See how common objects can be combined with technology to create fun and concrete forms of story telling
• Learn a variety of ways to strategically place switches within books themselves and create wonderful interactive, attention keeping activities
• See how what is recorded into the voice output device (story text, music, sound effects, directions to follow) can offer numerous activity options while using the same technology set up over and over again.
Samples of all the above adaptations as well as many others will be available for participants to view and try. Throughout the presentation many other useful and creative ways of incorporating the ideas into a variety of curriculum areas including communication, social skills, math, movement, social studies, science, cooking, and leisure skills will be given.
Participants are encouraged to come with their own ideas to share and ready to have fun!
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