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Low-Tech Approaches to Teaching Early Communication and Emergent Literacy

Low-Tech Approaches to Teaching Early Communication and Emergent Literacy. Group 3. Factors that Promote Communication an Language Development. Child’s environment Behavior of people around Child’s abilities (sight, sound, touch, movement, problem solving) Choice making

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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 Group 3

  2. Factors that Promote Communication an Language Development • Child’s environment • Behavior of people around • Child’s abilities (sight, sound, touch, movement, problem solving) • Choice making • Initiation of communication exchanges

  3. Problems • Can not independently interact with people and objects in the environment • Do not present the cognitive abilities to become fully symbolic communicators independently • Are not provided with multiple opportunities to engage in communicative rich environments

  4. Technology Tools • Switches enable students who have limited motor control to activate battery operated toys and other equipment with a single movement • Cause and effect • Choice making • Simple augmentative communication devices • Single message communication • Multi-step communication

  5. Types of Switches • Generic push • Squeeze/pinch • Muscle/twitch

  6. Use of the Switch • Optimal position that the child will be placed in • Specific motor behavior that will be used for switch activation • Type of switch • Instructional procedures that will be used to teach the student how to use the switch (like modeling)

  7. Sample Class Activity • For both of these students, they could use the generic push switch to demonstrate what they have learned. They can answer multiple choice questions by choosing A, B, C, or D.

  8. Delicious Tags • Tangible and Tactile Symbols • www.designtolearn.com/pages/ts.html • Emergent Literacy • www.med.unc.edu/ahs/clds • Early Language Development • www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/development/language_development.shtml • Low-Tech Communication Devices • www.adamlab.com/

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