Another student who has difficulty communicating is Andy. His IEP goal is to move beyond communication with gestures (or, if prompted, with sign language) and increase his overall expressive language production. For this, he can use various methods including: sign language, gestures, communication boards, pictures and simple voice output in 4/5 opportunities. As this goal is focused on an increase in language output through a whole range of options, some training and/or time for setting up the AT for both the staff and Andy may be necessary with two of the methods: Communication boards and Voice Output. As he already uses gestures and sign language, these do not require additional set up or training rather encouraging Andy to use them would be more the focus.
Communication boards provide a range of pictures/images that when pointed to can express a desire or question. One example is shown to the right. As you can see there are feelings, objects and actions all part of this board. The training that might occur with this is the actual set up of the boards to see if what he wants to say is actually on the board. This one has feelings, objects and actions as possible choices.
Another type of method new method for Andy is a Voice Output devices. A great example of Dynavox which I previously blogged about. Here's a link to reacquaint with it.
http://allyouareandcanbe.blogspot.com/2014/02/voice-output-communication-device.html
Communication boards provide a range of pictures/images that when pointed to can express a desire or question. One example is shown to the right. As you can see there are feelings, objects and actions all part of this board. The training that might occur with this is the actual set up of the boards to see if what he wants to say is actually on the board. This one has feelings, objects and actions as possible choices.
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