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Low-Tech Approaches to Teaching Early Communication and Emergent Literacy

Learn about low-tech approaches and supportive technology for promoting early communication and literacy skills in children with varied abilities. Explore examples, strategies, and decision-making processes to create enriching communicative environments.

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Low-Tech Approaches to Teaching Early Communication and Emergent Literacy

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  1. Low-Tech Approaches to Teaching Early Communication and Emergent Literacy By: Mindy, Meghan, Matt and Jenna

  2. Promoting Communication • Influenced by senses • Responsive and interactive communication with parents and siblings • Environment that is rich in activity and promotes opportunities to communicate • Initiate communication • Attention to initiated communication • Milestone: choice making

  3. Problems With Early Communication • Cannot independently interact with people or objects due to hearing, vision or motor difficulties • Do not present cognitive abilities to become fully symbolic communicators • Are not provided with multiple opportunities to engage in communicative-rich environments

  4. Supportive Technology • Switches enable students who have limited motor control to activate battery operated toys and other electronic equipment with a single movement • Used to teach choice making to children • Used to teach cause and effect • Used to deliver a single or recorded message

  5. Determining the Use of Switches • Decision made by team of professionals • Decision-making process • Position the child will be placed in for the activity • Specific motor behavior that the child will use for activation • Best type of switch to use • Instructional procedures that will be used to teach the student to use switch set-up

  6. Examples of Switch Technology • Generic Push: pushes down on switch and activates toy it is connected to • Toggle/Flexible: Activated by moving stick or bending rubber • Squeeze/Pinch: Squeeze or pinch soft rubber ball • Light sensitive: switch activates by a change in lighting

  7. Activity • Have program set up on a computer where the switch is used to click the mouse • Have students take turns going up to the computer and clicking to communicate nonverbally

  8. Delicious Tags • Low Tech: Go Talk (Attainment Company) • http://www.attainmentcompany.com/xcart/home.php?cat=227 • Early Language Development: Child Development Institute • http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/language_development.shtml • Tangible and Tactile Symbols: Design to learn • http://www.designtolearn.com/pages/ts.html • Emergent Literacy: Center for Literacy and Disability Studies at UNC • http://www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds/

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