Transcript Positive Behavior Support Using Technology

Positive Behavior Support
Using Technology
Carol D. Moffett
Resource Specialist in Assistive Technology
Fayette County Public School
859-381-4180
[email protected]
Use of Technology
• Using technology as a positive behavior support is nothing
new. It has been done forever. Parents have used
TV/movies and other forms of entertainment to support
their child’s behavior.
• Education is using technology because the students are
demanding it use. They have grown up with video games,
VCRs, and other technological advances. They are bored
with mere pencil and paper activities.
• Content is NOT jeopardized by the use of technology.
Talking Word Processors
Wordsmith is designed to provide help to Microsoft Word users with
reading and writing difficulties. It can read text aloud and help you
construct words and sentences. It also has advanced spell checking,
documents scanning, screen reading and pronunciation capabilities.
The utilities contained within the program are:
– word prediction for miss-spelt or unfinished words
– a thesaurus
– a word wizard to search for words you have forgotten or related word
groups
– a pronunciation tutor to show you how each syllable of a word is
pronounced
– an advanced spell checker
– a homonyms checker
– a text reader
– screen reading options
– a document scanner with OCR
Talking Word Processors
–This program actually uses a tool bar that is added across the top of
the Word document so that it does not look any different that any
other computer that has WORD loaded.
–Best used with students intermediate and upper levels.
(more information can be seen at www.texthelp.com)
•Talking Word Processors
• Write Out Loud (Don Johnston, Inc)—Write Out Loud (WOL) is
designed to be used as a stand alone software package for a talking
word processor. WOL is a valuable tool for students who:
• are reluctant and frustrated writers
• need help to pass their writing standards
• have difficulty expressing their ideas in writing
• need to write and work more independently
• have limited reading skills
• WOL allows the student to include imported graphics to prompt and
support writing, on screen tools let students work without menus,
easier formatting, and highlights as it reads back to the students. Can
be set to read letters, words, sentences, or paragraphs in numerous
voice options.
• Best used with students K- and up.
• More information can be gathered from www.donjohnston.com.
Portable Word
Processors
Alpha Smart 3000
(Alphasmart, Inc.)
• AlphaSmart 3000 brings a world of capabilities to all learners. Some
students are all too familiar with the struggles associated with taking
notes in class, writing first drafts and keeping assignments organized.
Help students overcome these writing barriers and begin writing all the
time and everywhere by choosing AlphaSmart's portable keyboard. All
written material is stored in the keyboard until students transfer it to
their personal computers for editing and revising. The AlphaSmart
3000 is lightweight, rugged, compatible with any text application and
easy to use. The AlphaSmart uses connects to any computer for
transferring information, making it simple to travel from home to
school or from classroom to classroom.
• www.alphasmart.com
Portable Word Processors
• full-size, full-feature keyboard helps students learn
traditional keyboarding skills
• so easy to use that little or no training is required
• 3 AA batteries give students 500 hours of writing time
Portable Word Processors
• Brother ML-500 Multilingual Portable
Word Processor
– Includes both the standard US English and
International daisy wheels
– 95,000 word dictionary with error locating
FIND feature and 204 user programmable
words
– 22,000 character text storage
Digital Cameras
Still Photography
Classroom directory
School maps
Visual Schedules
Digital Cameras
CAMCORDERS
instructional videos for younger children
portfolio pieces
informational films about your school
video reports on field trips
subject lessons
Start to Finish Books
(Don Johnston, Inc.)
• Start-to-Finish is for students who:
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Cannot hold a book
Are two or more grades behind in reading
Have language disorders
Have dyslexia and other learning disabilities
Are learning English as a second language
– Have spelling and writing difficulties
• Three levels of support
– Three formats—"talking" computer book, paperback book and
audiocassette — provide different levels of reading intervention and
support that scaffold students to independent reading.
– www.donjohnston.com
Visual Timers
Watch Minder
• The WatchMinder® is an assistive device to
help people with attention deficit disorder
(A.D.D.), attention deficit hyperactivity
disorder (A.D.H.D.), learning disorders, (L.D.)
and chronic diseases such as diabetes and
hypertension. The watch is a valuable tool for
clinical trials research and improves subject
compliance
• www.watchminder.com
Visual Timers
Time Timer
• The Time Timer provides the ability to judge how
much time is left without having to know how to tell
time. The products operate with high color resolution,
large dial numbers, and ultra-quiet quartz movement.
These additional features make the Time Timer
product line perfect for special needs applications
such as students with ADD, ADHD, autism, etc.;
counseling situations; occupational and physical
therapy sessions; stroke and brain injury
rehabilitation; and geriatric care.
Visual Timers
• Trainers and special education teachers have proven that Time
Timer products work in both individual and group situations.
With the Time Timer, users understand the passage of time and
can monitor their own activities, improving their self-esteem.
Better time awareness also relieves the stress and anxiety of
disorientation. Special needs uses include:
• • Timing counseling sessions and exercises
• Self-monitoring of activities
• Overseeing speech, hearing and vision therapies
• Memory prompting for medications, appointments, etc.
• www.timetimer.com
Inspiration/Kidspiration
• Student outcomes
– Students process, organize and prioritize new information to
improve their writing
– Students categorize information, make connections and
recognize patterns to clarify their thinking
– Students use organization stages to integrate new knowledge
and ideas
– www.inspiration.com
• Inspiration is the writing intervention tool for students
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Have trouble organizing their ideas
Learn visually
Need help to clarify their thoughts
Need help to identify relationships
Have trouble recognizing organizational patterns
Need a way to capture main ideas quickly
KIDSPIRATION—K-3rd grade
INSPIRATION—4th grade and up
www.inspiration.com
Visual Schedules
Boardmaker
(Mayer Johnson, Inc.)
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To help teachers create paper communication overlays,
here is a graphics database of all the Picture
Communication Symbols in bitmapped clip art form. The
Find feature lets you retrieve the one needed. Pre-made
grids are included. Each symbol name is in ten languages:
English, Spanish, French Canadian, Portuguese, Danish,
Swedish, German, Dutch, Norwegian and Italian.
• www.mayerjohnson.com
Writing with Symbols
(Mayer-Johnson, CO)
Students with disabilities who are learning how to communicate with symbols
benefit from reading and writing materials that use the same symbol sets.
Writing with Symbols 2000 is the versatile program that lets teachers create
symbol-based materials that let students learn to read, write and communicate
with pictures. Teachers create picture-word stories and students can read them.
Teachers create word and symbol displays and students can write by selecting
symbols. Teachers associate words with the pictures as needed and the speech
feedback can be used to read words to students. Writing with Symbols 2000
helps teachers offer students the early writing experiences that are essential to
literacy development.
www.mayerjohnson.com
Reading Pen
(Wizcom Technologies)
• When students who struggle come across words they do
not know, it interferes with their reading practice and
comprehension. They must stop reading and attempt to
decode the word. If they don't understand the word,
students must also look up a word in a traditional
dictionary. Many students find these tasks difficult and
overwhelming, or they pass over the words they do not
know missing valuable learning information. The Reading
Pen II is the handheld tool that lets students scan a word,
hear the word read out loud and get its definition at the
push of a button. Students increase reading independence
and extend their reading time for learning or pleasure.
• www.donjohnston.com
Homework Wizard
(Franklin Electronic Publishers)
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Homework Wiz Plus is Franklin's
non-speaking speller and dictionary
that now includes a calculator. It is
silent so students can use it during
regular class time—for any
subject—without disturbing others.
Requires four AAA batteries
• www.franklin.com
QUESTIONS?
Carol D. Moffett
– Resource Specialist in
Assistive Technology
– EdS—Univ.Ky.—Assistive
Technology
– Fayette County Board of
Education
– 859-381-4180
– [email protected]