Animated
Step-by-Steps™ are designed to simultaneously address literacy, language
and AAC (if you’ve purchased a symbol-supported version – SymbolStix/PCS). There
are however, a variety of additional academic agendas that can be addressed in a fun way. A great example of this can be found in the resource, Counting Snacks for Baby.
Counting Snacks for Baby is designed to work on functional counting, number equivalency and the concept of how many. “Here are some snacks for your baby. Pick one!” Students are provided with five snack choices: raisins, animal crackers, cookies (vanilla wafers), Gerber puffs and veggie sticks.
After
choosing a snack from a field of five, e.g.,
Gerber puffs, the program navigates to a page that allows the student to
indicate how many Gerber puffs they plan to feed their baby. This
is achieved by selecting a number on a number line (1 through 5).
If the student chose 4, for example, the program navigates
to a page where the number four is prominently displayed in red and they can count out four Gerber puffs. Each click
causes a Gerber puff to magically appear on the number line. “One” … “Two” … “Three” … “Four”. When the
designated number has been reached, the unnecessary
number(s)’, in this case number five, fades from view.
The student is then encouraged to “Feed” the baby. A further click causes the items to sequentially
disappear amid eating sounds. The baby then announces, “All done”.
You may have noticed when counting … a pattern was emerging …
pink puff, orange puff, pink puff …. orange puff. This particular ASbyS can
also be used to address patterning as
an optional agenda. Counting, number equivalency and patterning, all packaged in
one great resource.
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©2016 Carol Goossens’,
Ph.D.
Augmentative Communication
Consultant
Speech-Language Pathologist
Special Educator
