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This group is for people who are interested in exploring and sharing solutions for communication and active involvement of girls with Rett Syndrome through assistive technology.
This group is for people who are interested in exploring and sharing solutions for communication and active involvement of girls with Rett Syndrome through assistive technology.
Suesan,
That is intersting. I am interested to see Classroom Suite on the EchoPoint. I will be trialing one with a young lady I am working with in early December.
This group is for people who are interested in exploring and sharing solutions for communication and active involvement of girls with Rett Syndrome through assistive technology.
Mark, thank you for your comments and analysis. Have you had much experience with PRC's EcoPoint? What is your take on it? We had a brief preview earlier this year with a beta EcoPoint (made by myTobii, correct?) before it had been through its fin...
Unlike the Tobii and Dynavox, the Eyegaze Edge from LC Technologies (which has been around for 20 years - www.eyegaze.com) is a computer-based system which can use ALL software, and the quality does not degrade when it leaves its software to contr...
A student in my class recently did demos with Tobii, Eyemax, Erica and Ecopoint. She is an fair to excellent four to six location low tech eye gazer. None of the devices could tolerate her glasses (so much for that claim from all the companies). H...
This group is for people who are interested in exploring and sharing solutions for communication and active involvement of girls with Rett Syndrome through assistive technology.
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- Hometown:
- Lincoln, RI
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- AT Specialist, Occupational Therapist
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- At 6:49am on July 12, 2008,
Faith Paradis said…
- Facilitated Communication.docHi Vickie,
Facilitated Communication is a very controvercial method that many people would argue does not fall under AAC, but I will respond as if it does.
I was asked to try FC with 2 students that I serviced who had Autism when FC was starting to become big news, around 1990. I read up on the subject and tried it with the 2 students. I quickly found that 1 of the students was not interested in typng/ involvment in the activity at all. The othe student was interested and started to cooperate. After a week or so of doing this technique, I told the parents that I did not see a reason to use it. The student who was interested in typing was typing on his own. What I provided him was typical instruction and guidence, not facilitation. The other student to this day does not use any method that has been tried for communication. And many have been tried.
The biggest problem that I see when I Iook at the situations such as the one you are asking about, it does seem odd that the student would be able to spontaneously type long dialogs of words that are spelled and gramatically correct without formal training. Definitely beyond my belief. Also, I look at the language understanding of the responses and must question the response comming from someone with very limited experiences.
I do want to clarify that I am not saying anyone is being deceptive, I don't know the situation.
I believe that girls with Rett Syndrome have a difficult time expressing themselves and having consistancy with output. I believe that we should assume competence to the level that someone has been taught and exposed. Often times FC shows people to be able to spell, write, create, when they have never been taught these things. It is unusual for individuals to read, write and create to a sofisticated level when they were never taught or exposed to the pocess.
Today we have many ways for individuals to access communication devices such as eye gaze and switches. I believe there is a way for everyone to communicate without the need to explore FC.
I am uploading a file I created with what I hope is links that explore both sides of FC.
These are just my thoughts,
Faith
- At 8:09pm on July 11, 2008,
Vickie L Kenyon said… - Hi Faith, what can you tell me about Facilitated Communication? I found a 23 year old woman Karly that uses this very successfully to communicate she does seminars I was so blown away about this she has a websight spiritdances.wordpress.com I found her on a Rett group with Face-book she started with picture cards then word cards then a small typewriter I am so excited to learn about this. thanks so much Vickie
- At 7:00pm on June 26, 2008,
jane flood said… - Thanks give me a call re: powerpoint. this whole site is great- I just read some awesome articles- I 'll share with you. Jane
- At 7:29pm on June 10, 2008,
Vickie L Kenyon said…
- Hi Faith
I loved the video clip about Rett Syndrome. I made a infomercial with Victoria's doctor here in Colo it's about 25 minutes long it's our story . I would be willing to show everyone but I have to figure out how to load it on my computer. (I am still learning ) do you think anyone would be interested in seeing it? Thanks Vickie
- At 8:28pm on June 4, 2008,
Deana Dufficy said… - Hey, Now I just figured out facebook, now this!...
- At 2:29pm on May 26, 2008,
Shawn Malcomson said… - Hi Faith,
I e-mailed them from a link on the website for educators and they sent me a link and password. I got too busy though and never used it. To use it with a device I believe you just use mouse commands and could probably add other serial commands for more advanced options as well. One of these days I'll sit down with Dan and see what he uses and put together a page for the software.
- At 3:50pm on April 29, 2008,
Shawn Malcomson said…
- Hi Faith,
Great to see you the other week. Just found out about this site. Kind of cool.
- At 4:36pm on November 10, 2007,
Sarah Gorham said…
- Hi Faith! Nice to see you here....it's been a while! Hope all is well..can't wait to "chat" AT with you!
~Sarah
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