Thursday, May 7, 2020
Monday, April 20, 2020
Animated Step-by-Steps® and Tele Practice!
Currently Speech Language Pathologists are grappling with how to conduct tele practice with their students with special needs. Many are exploring the use of apps like Zoom, Skype, Facetime or Team Google to mediate their therapeutic practice.
Animated Step-by-Steps® are animated PowerPoints that can serve a role in tele practice. Imagine … sharing your computer screen to read an animated book that paces the child through a shared story, making pudding, constructing a Baggie Butterfly or Making Play Dough, conducting the Bean Experiment or learning how to play Go Fish (assisted by a parent or older sibling).
Some ASbySs are guessing games with a literacy component. With these resources, you would use the pen tool of PowerPoint (command p when in slide show mode) to provide the letter hints necessary for guessing the mystery object's name. The child at home might be using their electronic communication device to offer their guesses (i.e., animal page, fruit page, vegetable page).
My Backpack (song button)
Mystery Animals
Mystery CVC Balls
Mystery Fruits & Vegetables
Some ASbySs provide a structured way to introduce the child to various 'family-oriented games' …
a great past time when 'sheltering in'. Resources highlight the rules and provide the child with some practice to ensure they know the rules.
Connect Four
Checkers
Poles & Ladders
War (card game)
Dominoes
Rock Paper Scissors
Go Fish
Beat the Clock
I Spy
The child's communication device can be programmed with scripted messages to mediate communication during future games.
Some ASbySs are designed with choices that must be made as the resource is read and animated. The therapist could then use partner-assisted scanning ("This one? … This one? …). For some students the choices can be supplemented with numbers/letters that that can be used as an alternative to partner-assisted scanning.
Mr. Potato Head (choosing body parts in keeping with the 5 senses)
My Little Wagon
I Spy (clothing)
I Spy (backpack contents)
Weather Bear (clothing)
Cars in a Row (patterning)
Several ASbySs reflect variations of the interactive B-I-N-G-O Song which has a fun singing and literacy agenda.
B-I-N-G-O & Friends
B-I-N-G-O Weather
B-I-N-G-O Zoo
B-I-N-G-O Planets (See Caroline Musselwhite's TpT)
There are many ASbySs that are counting songs working on number concepts. Again, the pen tool can be used to highlight subtraction as an academic focus.
And last, but not least ... there are many ASbySs that lend themselves to being personalized with photo faces of your students and their classmates/family members thereby heightening the child's interest in watching the screen. Similarly, Mystery Puzzles – Letters and Mystery Puzzles – Numbers that can be personalized with photo faces of the child and their classmates/family.
To view the entire Library of Animated Step-by-Steps® download the Illustrated Listing of Animated step-by-Steps® a free resource available from the Bloom Where You're Planted Store on TpT. https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Bloom/Search:Illustrated+Listing
Happy Tele Practice!
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©2020 Carol Goossens’, Ph.D.
Augmentative Communication Consultant
Special Educator
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Mystery Puzzles - Tele-practice anyone?
Mystery Puzzles are Animated Step-by-Steps® designed to provide students with practice recognizing letters/numbers in sequential order.
If the child is using direct selection they can directly access the puzzle pieces when instructed to find a letter/number.
If the child is using a switch, alphabet/number knowledge is not required; across slides, a switch click removes one puzzle piece while simultaneously providing stimulation by announcing the number/letter of the puzzle piece being removed. Please note this resource does not target scanning per se, but rather targets motor practice in accessing a switch.
Each puzzle size (e.g. 4-piece puzzle, 9-piece puzzle, 16-piece puzzle)
has a series of slides, each targeting the 'next' letter/number in the sequence.
For example:
Slide 1 - "Find a"in the lettered puzzle array
Slide 2 - "Find b"in the lettered puzzle array
Slide 3 - "Find c"in the lettered puzzle array . . . etc.
Whenever the child (using direct selection) selects the requested correct letter/number, that puzzle piece is removed revealing a portion of the underlying picture; the letter/number name is heard. If the child is using a switch for access the process is errorless. They hear the command 'Find a' and a click of their switch removes the puzzle labeled "a".
Whenever a child (using direct selection), touches the wrong requested number /letter, a mildly negative "huhugh" is heard; the underlying portion of the image is NOT revealed.
This is not an issue with children using a switch, as the process is errorless.
When the picture is fully revealed … the child is rewarded with a cheering sound effect.
Instructions are provided for using photos from a picture library that is included with the resource. Instructions are also provided for using pictures of your choosing, e.g., 'mystery' photo faces of classmates, therapists or family members.
How fun is that?
This resource is great for tele-practice using Zoom. When the slide (viewed via shared screen) announces "Find d", the child must indicate the correct letter on their alphabet display (non-electronic/electronic) possibly assisted by a parent or older sibling. If the child is correct the therapist/teacher proceeds to click on the correct letter/number triggering the animation to remove the target puzzle piece. If the child selects the incorrect letter on their alphabet board ... the therapist selects the suggested incorrect letter which results in the 'huhugh' sound (a slightly negative sound effect assigned to all non-target puzzle pieces). " Nope that's not it ... let's try again, "Find d".
In fact most Animated Step-by-Steps® lend themselves beautifully to tele-practice. Each page often includes a series of animations. Read the text up to the star … click … and see an animation of what you just read. If you have purchased a symbol-supported version, the symbols will appear AFTER all the slide animations have been triggered. The symbols are now available to conduct some Aided Language Stimulation.
The bottom line: Animated Step-by-Steps® are perfect for tele-practice
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©2020 Carol Goossens’, Ph.D.
Augmentative Communication Consultant
Special Educator
Monday, March 16, 2020
High Contrast Animated Step-by-Steps® - A Starting Point
To substitute visuals, simply control click (mac) or right click (windows) on the visual that you wish to replace ... navigate to where you are storing your 'substitute' image (perhaps one that is simpler or reflects your student's preferred colors) ... select the substitute image (it must have a transparent background; png format) and presto it is replaced in the resource without disrupting the animation sequence! In the accompanying image, the traffic light base has been substituted ... a red circle was substituted ... a yellow circle was substituted and the original green light is in the process of being substituted. A Control click on the current green light brings up a dropdown menu allowing you to select the Change Picture command. You must then navigate to select the substitute image stored on your computer.
For further detailed information on replacing images within the animation sequence, please visit these previous blog posts:
http://bit.ly/EasyPersonalize
http://bit.ly/2hV71nK
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©2020 Carol Goossens’, Ph.D.
Augmentative Communication Consultant
Special Educator
Monday, March 9, 2020
Illustrated Listing of Animated Step-by-Steps® for VI
Download the FREE Illustrated Listing of Animated Step-by-Steps® for students with Visual Impairment.
These VI resources (available through TpT) can be displayed on the 'big screen' (interactive whiteboard, large screen TV using Apple TV) or the 'small screen' (computer monitor, iPad/Android tablet or iPhone using the free Microsoft PowerPoint app designed for each).
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©2020 Carol Goossens’, Ph.D.
Augmentative Communication Consultant
Special Educator
Sunday, March 1, 2020
FREE 5 Little Shamrocks
'Test drive' the Animated Step-by-Steps® format with the following FREE formats (Regular, PCS, SymbolStix and VI). Available for FREE through TpT.
The high contrast, VI version, is designed to better address the needs of students with visual impairments. This format also works well for some students on the autism spectrum. Download the Regular version and the VI version to compare and contrast which format works best for your student on the spectrum.
5 Little Shamrocks can be displayed on the 'big screen' (interactive whiteboard, large screen TV using Apple TV) or the 'small screen' (computer monitor, iPad/Android tablet or iPhone using the FREE Microsoft PowerPoint app).
Hope you enjoy using these FREE resource.
The high contrast, VI version, is designed to better address the needs of students with visual impairments. This format also works well for some students on the autism spectrum. Download the Regular version and the VI version to compare and contrast which format works best for your student on the spectrum.
5 Little Shamrocks can be displayed on the 'big screen' (interactive whiteboard, large screen TV using Apple TV) or the 'small screen' (computer monitor, iPad/Android tablet or iPhone using the FREE Microsoft PowerPoint app).
Hope you enjoy using these FREE resource.
…’til the next post …
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©2020 Carol Goossens’, Ph.D.
Augmentative Communication Consultant
Special Educator
Tuesday, February 25, 2020
FREE 5 Little Valentines
If you wish to 'test drive' the Animated Step-by-Steps® format, use this link to download the FREE
5 Little Valentines resource. This title is available in 4 formats: Regular, PCS, SymbolStix and VI and can be displayed on a broad range of technology using either the Microsoft PowerPoint application for your computer or the free Microsoft PowerPoint app designed to display PowerPoint on your iPad/iPhone/Android tablet.
This high contrast VI version is designed to better address the needs of students with visual impairments.
This format also seems to work well for some students on the autism spectrum. Download the Regular version and the VI version to compare and contrast which format works best for your student.
5 Little Valentines resource. This title is available in 4 formats: Regular, PCS, SymbolStix and VI and can be displayed on a broad range of technology using either the Microsoft PowerPoint application for your computer or the free Microsoft PowerPoint app designed to display PowerPoint on your iPad/iPhone/Android tablet.
This high contrast VI version is designed to better address the needs of students with visual impairments.
This format also seems to work well for some students on the autism spectrum. Download the Regular version and the VI version to compare and contrast which format works best for your student.
This resource can be displayed on the 'big screen' (interactive whiteboard, large screen TV using Apple TV) or the 'small screen' (computer monitor, iPad/Android tablet or iPhone using the FREE Microsoft PowerPoint app).
…’til the next post …
Follow me on twitter www.twitter.com/@AnimStepbySteps
Email me canadiangoosse@gmail.com
©2020 Carol Goossens’, Ph.D.
Augmentative Communication Consultant
Special Educator
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