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Assistive Technology Supports Build a
Universally Designed Early Education Classroom
Berni EsterAssistive Technology/AAC SpecialistForest Lake Schools
3/28/15
Goal of Education
Education should help turn novice learners into expert learners -individuals who want to learn, who know how to learn strategically, and who, in their own highly individual and flexible ways, are well prepared for a lifetime of learning.
Young children are more alike than different, but all
young children are different.
Differentiate Instruction
Use a proactive rather than
reactive approach
Use flexible grouping
Employ variable pacing
Be knowledge
based
Be learner centered
Vary materials and activities according to individual and small-group needs
Use Multi-sensory Materials
Consider the needs of visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learners. Plan activities and routines that allow for alternative ways of participating in tasks based on each child's way of attending, organizing information, interacting and understanding language. (Blagojevic, Twomey, Labas, 2007, p. 1)
Move the learning goals from:• abstractConcrete to
• complexSimple to
• to transformationalBasic
• more facets (steps)Fewer facets to
• greater leapsSmaller leaps to
• more openMore structured to
• independenceInterdependence to
• slower (more intense focus)Quicker to
Tomlinson -1995
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Employ Learning Strategies Adaptation
A change, addition or deletion that increases the fitness of its possessor.
Wikopedia
Application of Adaptations:
Modifications: Student adaptations that reduce the vigor of the work. (Require IEP/504)
Accommodations: Student adaptations that work toward ‘leveling the playing field’ without changing the vigor of the work.
Assistive Technology
Any item, piece of equipment or product system. . . that is used to increase, maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a child with a disability” (IDEA, 2004) (IEP/504)
Promotes greater independence for learners with disabilities by providing enhancements to or changed methods of interacting with tasks that these learners were formerly unable to accomplish, or had great difficulty accomplishing.
Universal Design
Emerged from "barrier-free" or "accessible design", which provided
a level of accessibility for people with disabilities, but often resulted in separate and stigmatizing solutions.
Strives, now, to be a broad-spectrum solution that helps everyone, not just
people with disabilities.
Principles of Universal Design
Equitable use
Flexibility in use
Simple and intuitive
Perceptible information
Tolerance for error
Low physical effort
Size and space for approach and use
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Universal Design for Learning (UDL)
(UDL) helps educators meet the goal of preparing young children
to be lifelong learners by providing a framework for creating curricula
that meets the needs of all learners from the start.
Universal Design for LearningPrinciples (UDL)
Multiple means of representation (Help learners identify and sort what they see, hear and touch)
Multiple means of expression (Provide learners alternatives for demonstrating what they know)
Multiple means of engagement (Tap into learners' interests, offer appropriate challenges, and increase motivation)
Engage Families
Include families in the planning and activities for their children
Consider the ways in which planned activities fit in with family preferences
and routines.
Foster collaboration with community partners
Build communication bridges between school and family to
share information and resources.
Embrace Multiple Cultures
Provide materials in multiple languages
Meet the needs of families from diverse backgrounds
Provide instruction in home language & English. Proficiency with the primary language promotes higher levels of achievement in English
Provide intensive oral English language development, especially explicit English vocabulary instruction.
Use story book reading, placingemphasis on vocabulary development(Collins, 2010; Lugo-Neris et. al., 2010)
Use instructional accommodations that take into account the child’s process of acquiring the second language.
Learning table: http://build.fpg.unc.edu/)
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Example UDL Lesson
Begin with a Story• Each month, read a story about a
community service location and helper.
• Include places/people of direct interest to the children in your classroom.
• Provide a Story Kit of 3D objects/high contrast visuals to support visually impaired students or those for whom the language of the story may be difficult to understand.
• Provide an interpreter/signed book for students with hearing impairments.
Favorite Character Visits the Community
• Drop Sponge Bob off at a different community service location once a month.
• Take a field trip or encourage families to visit him and interact with community helpers.
Document the Visit
• Take pictures/make videos of Sponge Bob and the children interacting with a special helper from each location. (Ask for parent volunteers to help!)
• Include culture specific locations and community helpers of different ethnicities who speak primary languages of children in class .
In Class Activities• Introduce a community helper from each
location (in person/video).
• Make class photo book/collage of the children’s adventures with Sponge Bob
• Use photo/tactile story guides and AAC to help children build, tell and ‘write’ a three-sentence story about each visit.
(Use sequencing, when possible.)
• Ask children to make drawings or recordings about live/video visits.
• Send copies of stories and drawings home for students to share. Use iPad screen shots for drawings done using apps.
Share It At Home!
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There’s an App for That!
[iOS/Android] (free)
Fingerpaint with Sounds
Kids Doodle –Movie Kids Color & Draw
• Multi-touch for multiple students
• Include a musical background• Save to photos
• Create glowing drawings and movies
• Gallery, Photo Import• Save to photos
Pair a Visually Impaired Student with a Seeing Student
• Draw, color, decorate with stickers, create animations and record.
• Save to photos
Draw and Tell$1.99iOS
There’s an App for That! iOS(photo/audio)
• Our Story for iPad (free) [Print, PDF, email, iTunes, Dropbox]
• StoryKit (free) (iOS/Android) [StoryKit server]
• Story Buddy Lite (free) [email, PDF, iTunes upload]
• Super Duper Story Maker (free) [email]
• StoryBook Maker ($2.99) [PDF]• Pictello ($14.99 iOS, $18.99
Android) [account, Dropbox, PDF]
There’s an App for That! (photo/audio/video)
• Book Creator ($4.99 iOS, $2.49 Android) [email, print, iTunes, PDF]
• Little Story Creator - Digital Scrapbooking & Photo Collage Maker (free iOS) [email]
• Story Creator (free iOS) [email]
• StoryMaker 1: Make Your Story (free Android) [email, favorite platforms]
What adaptations were made for:
• children whose primary language is not English?
• children who are deaf/hard of hearing?
• children who have physical disabilities?
• children who have low vision?
• children who are low/non-verbal?
• children with low cognition?
• children with autism?
Physical Environment
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Building Support Structures
• Station for individual or small group work time
• Stations for identified activities
1001 Uses for . . . colored tape!!
• Taped navigation guide
• Outlined areas for individual spaces.
Visual Supports for Organization
Identify desired storage areas in cubbies, toy containers, toy shelves and lockers with picture symbols
Seating• Chairs with
pommels provide physical support and ‘sitting reminder’
• Floor mats and seats identify individual seating places
Technologies
• SmartBoard/Interactive White Board
• SmartTable
• TabletsMovement
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MeMoves (patented system for co-regulation)
• MeMoves Children mirror images, movement and expressive features of emotion to background music.
• MeMoves Pattern Cards provide textured icons and are uniquely suited for those with low vision or specific sensory challenges
DVD ($59.95) and iOS App ($9.99)
(iOS)
*2
BrainDanceBrainDance: A series of exercises comprised of eight developmental movement patterns beneficial in reorganizing the central nervous system: Breath; Tactile; Core-Distal; Head-Tail; Upper-Lower; Body-Side; Cross-Lateral; Vestibular
Book ($50) CD ($30)
UDL and Early Literacy
Multiple Means of Representation
• Provide stories in primary language so children can be competent in understanding them in primary language before expecting understanding in second language.
• Support children who have visual/cognitive/language disabilities with 3-D symbol story supports (Story Box)
Multiple Means of Expression• Provide a voice-output switch
for low/non-verbal child to say a repeated line or request to turn a page
• Provide low/non-verbal child with a choice board to select a story
• Provide a book supported with picture symbols to a low/nonverbal child for retelling a story. *3
Multiple Means of Engagement:Cultural Plurality in Literacy
• Check the illustrations for broad range of human diversity (race, ethnicity, gender)
• Check the story line for persons of color or individuals with disabilities who are able to solve their own problems
• Consider the author's perspective. Are diverse cultural perspectives included?
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Multiple Means of EngagementBook selection
Select high-interest books accessible for all children. Include books with:
– high-contrast visual images;
– touch-and-feel books;
– “big‟ books;
– books with electronic sounds;
– stories with repeated lines; and
– books with thick cardboard pages
AT and Early Literacy
• Use page fluffers (tongue depressors, Velcro®, large paper clips)
• Re-bind favorite book to lay flat
• Use slant boards and large rubber band supports for book positioning
boy
*4
Provide Auditory Stories• Stories On-Line
(http://www.storylineonline.net/)
• MyOn (check libraries) https://www.myon.com/
• Tarheel Reader (http://tarheelreader.org/)
[Use red and green stickers on the ‘stop/play buttons’ of CD players.]
*5
“I see_____”
Provide Reading Comprehension Language
Supports
There’s an App for That!
• iPad Best of the Best – 50 Essential Children’s Book Apps (Part 1: Toddlers) -http://digitalmediadiet.com/?p=1645
• iPad Best of the Best – 25 Essential Children’s Books http://digitalmediadiet.com/?p=574
$2.99$4.99
[iOS/Android]
Interactive Book AppsBest interactive books for kids - iPad, iPhone, Android https://www.pinterest.com/appysmarts/best-interactive-books-for-kids-ipad-iphone-android/
Little CritterThe Trip
How I Became a Pirate $3.99 $.99
$2.99
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Story Apps in ASL
• Signed Stories: Animated stories with pop-up videos. Children learn signs through highly interactive stories.
iOS/Android(free) second book $.99
• Sign Me a Story: Best-selling children’s stories animated by ITV with narration, music and fun learning games in ASL. Has free book/vocabulary builder
iOS (free) books $.99 -$5.99*6
UDL and Math/Play/Creation
Play & Learn: A Motor-Based Preschool Curriculum for Children of All Abilities.
Ablenet
12-month preschool curriculum specifically developed for children of ALL abilities! ($560.00)
• Social Interaction• Structure & Repetition• Motivation• Music & Movement
Adaptive Toys• Blocks/balls with texture, sound and color
• Dress-up clothes with large openings and simple closures
• Scented craft materials of varying textures
• Magnetic blocks
Adapted Games/Toys
• Card holders
• Adapted dice (tactile or virtual)
• Knobbed puzzles /audio puzzles
• Magnetic games
Adapted Art
• Slant board
• Triangular Crayons
• Grips
• Paint stamps
• Easy grip brushes
• Adapted scissors
*7
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Switch Adapted Toys/CD Players
Virtual Play
Software:
• Switch It Jigsaw Maker - Inclusive Tech
• Senswitcher
• HelpKidsLearn
*8
Injini: Collection of learning games (puzzles, farm-themed mini-games, illustrations) for young children, especially toddlers and preschoolers with cognitive, language, and fine motor delays.
iOS: $29.99
iOS: free
There’s an App for That! Games
There’s an App for That!Dice and Spinners
• iChoose (free) (iOS)
• Dice (free) (Android)
*9
There’s an App for That! Switch Accessibility
• Switch Accessible Apps for iPad/iPhone –Non AAC: http://www.janefarrall.com/switch-accessible-apps-for-ipadiphone-non-aac/
• HelpKidzLearn iPad and Android Apps: http://www.helpkidzlearn.com/apps
• iPad & Android Apps from Inclusive Technology ($2.99): http://www.inclusivetlc.com/ipad/apps
• Guide to Switch Access for Android Lollipop:www.ablenetinc.com/Portals/0/KnowledgeBase/Manuals/Android_Lollipop_Switch_Access_Guide.pdf
Switch Access for Tablets
Ablenet Blue2™
iOS/Android ($179)
Provides access to compatible applications via Bluetooth wireless technology.
APPlicatoriOS ($165)
RJ Cooper Bluetooth Cordless Switch Interface iOS($114)
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Communication
Present Tangible Symbols• Object-level symbolic representation is
permanent, manipulable and obvious
• Types of tangible symbols:– Identical (Cheeto on card)
– Partial or Associated (strap – “bus seatbelt”)
– Created Association (star “change”)
*10
WHO benefits from the use of tangible symbols?
- blindness/low vision/CVI
- developmental disabilities
- Autism
- difficulty understanding 2D symbols
Students who have:
Why use tangible symbols?
• In schedule boxes;
• to gain/maintain access to preferred items and activities;
• to reject, escape or avoid non-preferred tasks
Move to 2D SymbolsGroup/Individual Schedules
Choice Making with 2D Symbols
*11
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Communicate Actively During Daily Routines
– “Is the bus here, yet?”
– “Please hang up my backpack/coat”.
– Give greetings.
– Announce attendance.
Use symbols to engage in communicative interaction
Play Activity: PODD
*12
Imaginative Play
There’s an App for That! Language• Tell Me About It! Learning Language
by Receptive Function, Feature & Category ($2.99) [iOS/Android]
• What Goes Together? [iOS/Android] ($1.99
• CleanUp: Category Sorting [iOS/Android] ($1.99)
• Hamaguchi Apps: (lang. development) [iOS]
http://www.hamaguchiapps.com/Reviews_of_our_Apps.html
There’s an App for That!AAC• Sounding Board (free)
[iOS/Android]
• AAC SpeechBuddy ($29.99) [iOS/Android]
• Proloquo2Go ($219.99) [iOS]
• TD Compass ($179.99) [iOS]
• Avez Pro [iOS: $149, Android: $99]
*14
Social-Emotional
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Visual Supports for Expected Rules
Visual Support for Describing Emotions/Loudness Level/Pace
Procedure for Asking Questions
Red and Green Choices
A Positive Behavioral Development Strategyfor Students with Autism or Behavioral Predispositions
http://www.redandgreenchoices.com/
(Green Irene)
There’s an App for That
Pre-School Readiness Skills
There’s an App for That! (Pre-School Skills)
• Eight Great Apps for Preschoolers: http://www.education.com/slideshow/ipad-apps-preschool/monkey-preschool/
• Top 10 Educational Apps for Pre-schoolers: http://www.icanteachmychild.com/the-10-best-iphoneipad-apps-for-preschoolers/
• 20 free Educational Apps for Pre-Schoolers: http://fun.familyeducation.com/mobile-apps/online-games/69665.html
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• EPIC Early Childhood Education Android Apps: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.epicnet.epic&hl=en
• Best Preschool Apps: https://www.commonsensemedia.org/lists/best-preschool-apps
• Best Early Childhood Apps on Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/appolearning/best-early-childhood-apps/
• 30 Of the Best Educational Android Apps for Kids: https://www.parentmap.com/article/20-educational-android-apps-for-kids
• Best Apps for Kids: http://bestappsforkids.com/category/apps-for-education/early-learning-apps/
I Hear Ewe
24 different authentic animal sounds and 12 different vehicle sounds. When a child taps on an animal or vehicle icon, the game will verbally announce the animal or vehicle it is and play a recording of its real sound. (English, Spanish, German or Chinese)
iOS(free)
Nighty Night
"Nighty Night!" Cute animals, sweet lullaby music and great narration. All around the house the lights go out, and in the barn, even the animals are tired. Children turn out the lights in the animal stalls.
Teaches fine motor (single finger point), cause and effect, visual discrimination, visual memory.
iOS: $2.99Android: $3.99 Toca Boca Doctor:
• Learning body parts
• Tapping
• Dragging[iOS/Android] ($2.99)
[iOS/Android] (free)
Good Night Safari:• Functional Skills• Imaginative Play• Early Literacy
Peekaboo Kids Barn:
• Names of animals
• Animal sounds
[iOS] ($.99)
[iOS/Android] ($1.99)
Splish Splash Inn:• Cause and Effect• One-to-One Correspondence• English, French and Spanish*15
Communication Bridge with Parents
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My Child – Daily Reports• One-touch portfolios and
instant daily sheets features are faster than paper and save significant time for teachers
• Teachers connect activities, portfolio pictures and notes to child’s unique learning standards
• Cost for organization
http://website.mychildnow.com/
iOS/Android(free)
TS Gold• Online tool for gathering/organizing
data
• Online developmental portfolios where children’s work can be stored
• Free app for showing families their child’s progress
• Print reports
http://shop.teachingstrategies.com/page/GOLD-assessment-online.cfm)
iOS/Android
Tots ‘n Tech Newsletters
• Using AT to promote literacy with Infants and toddlers
• Using Visual Supports with Infants and Toddlers
• Powered Mobility with Infants and Toddlers
• More on the iPad
• SmartTables
http://tnt.asu.edu/home/news